Seems that there are some careers where people actively seek to eliminate the accent.
That’s an old, old practice in radio and TV broadcasting. Long ago the industry chose the Midwestern accent as the one to use. And they do.
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Many do have voice coaches to make them more acceptable, but I watch a lot of programs on Fox News and the high pitched, very nasal, Northern tones that spew from the mouths of many of the women there just drive me crazy.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is probably the worst, Greta next and then Dana Pirino, as well as others. ...Most of the other women there have decent sounding voices... Harris Faulkner, Patty Ann Brown, Gretchen, Meghyn, Taranto, Kimberley, etc.
I am surprised at your comments about some of the ladies on Fox News. I don’t watch TV, haven’t in years, so I was going on what I had seen in the past, and then all the networks featured a very bland, non-accented speech (i.e., Midwestern).