Hi @Simone_De_Beauvoir
You are right that I narrowed my question down to a dichotomy, but I only did that to key in on what I was wondering about. I didn’t include other facets, only for the sake of simplicity. One other facet for example, is that the trend is to hire young men and young women to replace the old anchors. And since the old anchors all came from a time when sexism prevented female anchors… most of the seasoned anchors are men, if you include national and local. There’s lots of exceptions of course, including Diane Sawyer, Jessica Savitch, and a host of others.
But I narrowed it down because producers obviously feel that young men and sexy women are better than the wise old guys.
And when I watch the news, and see how so many beautiful models have replaced meteorologists in the weather, and other sexy looking women have replaced other intellectual type anchors… it makes me realize that the TV stations are trying to please male viewers with the sexy women. And I’d rather have the crusty wise old ones, rather than than the young ones. And I was wondering if the TV stations are just stupid in their assumptions, or if they are accurate, as far as gaining more viewers goes for the news shows.
I could have widened the discussion to include the general trend of young anchors vs. older, wiser anchors.
But since I know the TV producers are totally wrong in their assumptions about me the viewer, I figured I’d ask all others who are in my situation… that being a male who watches the news. Not that I don’t want you or others to widen the discussion as you did.