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Norah O'Donnell Is Killing What's Left of the CBS Evening News
PJ Media ^ | 22 Oct 2019 | Stephen Green

Posted on 10/22/2019 10:32:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan

The Brits call them "newsreaders." Their job is to sit behind a desk on a TV set and read the news -- ostensibly written by actual journalists, but also by the propagandists at the BBC -- off the teleprompter in a professional-sounding manner while looking reassuringly into the camera.

In America we call them "anchors." Their job is to be the star of the show, to determine what goes on the air, to provide the desired slant to the news, and then at some point during the evening, to read the news off the teleprompter in a professional-sounding manner while looking reassuringly into the camera.

In Britain, being a newsreader is a nice job. In America, being an anchor is to sit atop the pinnacle of the fabulously wealthy and self-important infotainment industry.

While British TV viewers might not get news of any higher quality or with any less bias than what American viewers get, they certainly get it with a lot less ego and drama.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; cbs; odonnell; seebsnews; trashtv
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To: Rummyfan

Rather did that back in 2004 (?)


21 posted on 10/22/2019 11:03:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Uncle Miltie

Fun fact...

Norah’s father is Ravi Shankar who introduced the sitar to rock and/or roll via Beatles/George Harrison and Rolling Stones.

Norah also has a country/blue grass group called “Little Willies” - good stuff, too.


22 posted on 10/22/2019 11:06:29 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: Bonemaker

Wasn’t she on FOX news many years ago?


23 posted on 10/22/2019 11:14:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Rummyfan

Boat anchors, more like, on a sinking ship.


24 posted on 10/22/2019 11:21:30 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: newfreep
Norah’s father is Ravi Shankar

Norah Jones

25 posted on 10/22/2019 11:28:28 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Rummyfan

She is pretty much full ‘tard.


26 posted on 10/22/2019 11:50:02 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Rummyfan

Who is Norah O’Donnell? Is she important?


27 posted on 10/22/2019 11:57:39 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Rummyfan

A mercy killing!


28 posted on 10/22/2019 11:57:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: fiddlesticks

Thanks to Fiddlesticks for this CBS reality!

29 posted on 10/22/2019 12:03:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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To: Rummyfan

“Newsreaders”.......the Brits have it right! There used to be a co-anchor on the local ABC news here in S.E. Michigan who was a stammering fool when not reading the teleprompter.


30 posted on 10/22/2019 12:06:48 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Rummyfan

No conservative needs to watch tv news any more. All the news you could ever want is available on the web, where they can’t make you click on Shep, Wallace, Scarborough, or anyone else in the leftist rat pack.


31 posted on 10/22/2019 12:07:16 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Rummyfan

She used to be okay.

Now she has a big, stupid, giant, grinning pie face like Hillary Clinton.


32 posted on 10/22/2019 12:13:51 PM PDT by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Sounds just like Julie Banderas of the sometimes weekend crew over at Fox.


33 posted on 10/22/2019 12:15:21 PM PDT by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Rummyfan

Ain’t it nice?


34 posted on 10/22/2019 12:23:01 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: mjp

Yep....

Little Willies (Norah Jones) live version of Dolly Parton’s iconic “Jolene”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=M3d8KobWVwk


35 posted on 10/22/2019 12:23:52 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: sheehan

“just eye candy, great body”

I guess we could mute the sound and just look.

“News reader” was mentioned in the article. Limbaugh calls them anchorettes and reporterettes.


36 posted on 10/22/2019 12:42:34 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Rummyfan

Megyn Kelly is thinking, “Not that I would even consider it, but I could do that job while standing on my head. There’s nothing to it!”


37 posted on 10/22/2019 12:46:50 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: edie1960

If that is true he’ll never be back. A good respectful interview with the President would be anathema to the MSM these days. Norah would be my pick if I had to choose a poison but the nice thing about these days is I no longer have to. Articles like these remind me there are still evening news broadcasts watched mostly by nursing home people. A definite dwindling audience.


38 posted on 10/22/2019 12:47:35 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Rummyfan
I call them talking heads or NPCs.


39 posted on 10/22/2019 1:05:33 PM PDT by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: xp38

Does anyone with at least one functioning brain cell watch these chronic liars? Pathetic.


40 posted on 10/22/2019 1:06:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reefucation Camp???)
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