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As a teenager, I was fortunate to work for United Press at a Democrat national convention and four years later at the Republican convention. That was (blush) late '50s, early '60s and back then the real newsmen, a rumpled gritty bunch, were bummed out by the new journalists who were more interested in their hairdos and suits than in gathering news.

TV was and remains the problem. The "news" people now just want to look good on camera.

[reformedliberal]

IMO, no one gets promoted any longer unless they can at the very least be made up and lit well enough to seem glamorous on TV. I used to think it was just the naturally attractive people who made it to TV, until I began to see some of them in natural light without studio makeup.

Some evenings, I can tell if a particularly talented hair/makeup artist is or is not working by the appearance of the prime time anchor/newsreader/famous pundits. Ditto the person in charge of lighting.

Then there is the game of waiting to see if they can still raise their eyebrows or if they have been Botoxed into immobility.

I think this all happened when color TV was invented. I don't recall it back in the day of B&W TV.

Back in the 1970s, I knew someone who was a buyer for Federated Department Stores. She said she could go to lunch where the models did and if she didn't already know who they were, minus all the makeup and flattering lighting, she couldn't tell them from any other ordinary/attractive person.