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The Money Man Behind Rick Santorum: Who Is Foster S. Friess?Like most people, I never watched `Anchorwoman.' I have better things to do with my time like gouge out my eyes. The sad fact is, though, that the program's scenario isn't that unrealistic. Like newspapers, local TV news is on the decline, and the outlook is pretty bleak.
"In 2006, audiences appeared to be dropping for newscasts across all time periods during the day - even mornings, which had been growing," according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism. "That dampened the hopes raised in earlier years that the hemorrhage in viewers had stabilized."
CNBC has the "Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo and "Street Sweetie" Erin Burnett. There are scads of Internet sites rating the looks of women and occasionally men who work in television news. There's even a Naked News Internet show where the mostly female anchors strip as they deliver the news -- or at least that's what I've heard. Check out the YouTube video below if you want to see what I mean.
Jones isn't the only former model with no journalistic experience to get a job in TV news and won't be the last. Indeed, broadcast news seems to get more superficial by the second.
CNBC has the "Money Honey" and "Money Sweetie." There are scads of Internet sites rating the looks of women and occasionally men who work in television news. There's even a Naked News Internet show where the mostly female anchors strip as they deliver the news -- or at least that's what I've heard.
So, now the question is what's next for Jones. Will she will get hired by another local TV station desperate for ratings. Maybe she should aim for a gig on cable or network news? Perhaps Howard Stern could make use of her talents on the Howard 100 news team on his Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) channels. I hear CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) may be looking for a new anchor for the "CBS Evening News."
Her career possibilities are endless, and that's just sad.
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