When News Anchormen Have Their Coat & Tie Off With Their Shirt Sleeves Rolled Up

[Dino Velvet]

You know someone's dead. Anybody work in a newsroom before? Are they told to make themselves look that way for dramatic effect?

[danthepoetman]

Good point. These people have efficient air conditioner systems! And the contrite look they are adopting is often so obviously artificial. You know what the "reaction shot" is, don't you, Dino? A cinematographic effect created by Hollywood. It's a mimic of an important evolutionary mechanism: when a member of a group show an emotion, it tends to spread to all the members, thus allowing quick reactions to predators, for instance. We humans have kept such a mechanism. Hollywood constantly uses the same in the movies: we don't just see the action; they constantly cut it, to show us the espressions and the emotions of the characters, to make sure we will share them. That's an annoying aspect of hollywoodism: these movies "tell us" what to feel instead of leaving the emotion to us. I think that indeed, the tv journalism has learn the lesson...

[blackchubby38]

You know someone's dead. Anybody work in a newsroom before? Are they told to make themselves look that way for dramatic effect?

There is this weatherman here in NYC (CBS channel #2 for those in the tri-state area) who rolls up his sleeves whenever there is extreme weather. He did it during Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

I think it comes off as being phony and like you said the only reason its done is for dramatic effect. There not reporting the news, they're sensationalizing it.

[francisfkudrow]

There is this weatherman here in NYC (CBS channel #2 for those in the tri-state area) who rolls up his sleeves whenever there is extreme weather. He did it during Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

I think it comes off as being phony and like you said the only reason its done is for dramatic effect. There not reporting the news, they're sensationalizing it.

They should tousle their hair and wear a dirty, perhaps torn shirt as well to complete the illusion that they're overwhelmed by the severity of the event.

[Dino Velvet]

There is this weatherman here in NYC (CBS channel #2 for those in the tri-state area) who rolls up his sleeves whenever there is extreme weather. He did it during Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy.

If that character ever shows up in a loin cloth everybody better say their final prayers.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs26/f/2008/133/f/a/Leviathan_Rising_by_LDN_RDNT.jpg

[danthepoetman]

If that character ever shows up in a loin cloth everybody better say their final prayers.

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs26/f/2008/133/f/a/Leviathan_Rising_by_LDN_RDNT.jpg
...and invoke all the gods that claim any reality in history! The biggest of them all, Dino, or also the smallest. This guy is the greatest killer in human history...
way enough to roll your sleaves if he comes back. Smallpox.
http://poussincitadin.free.fr/images/pathos/variole2.jpg

[Dino Velvet]

...and invoke all the gods that claim any reality in history! The biggest of them all, Dino, or also the smallest. This guy is the greatest killer in human history...
way enough to roll your sleaves if he comes back. Smallpox.
http://poussincitadin.free.fr/images/pathos/variole2.jpg

Watch out for Smallpox. It has little pox complex.

[danthepoetman]

Watch out for Smallpox. It has little pox complex.
Indeed! lol! Don't challenge the small, peacefull guys; they're sometimes the worst!!

[Dino Velvet]

Indeed! lol! Don't challenge the small, peacefull guys; they're sometimes the worst!!

Unless The Hulk shows up.

Robert Conrad - Knock This Off - Battle of the Network Stars 1979 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5jrGEeyXM)

[youngblood61]

Something bad has happened.

[Vladimir Putin]

About ten years ago, I once saw Fredericka Whitfield on CNN with sweat above her upper lip and I thought that was hot. After a taped news report, her sweat was gone.

If I were running CNN, I would have left it on.