They’re not reporters, they’re news readers, if one can call it news. Most local news outfits are too cheap to bother with gathering their own local news to rep[ort and they instead rely on news “packages” delivered to them from pitch groups. Some “packages” are nothing more than ads posing as news. Some are from activist groups pitching an agenda. The anchors, being empty headed but well paid, then act out the news using the supplied text.
Meanwhile, real reporters doing real investigative journalism can now setup a website and do in depth investigative journalism with a fraction of the overhead of the dinosaur media.
And the dinosaur media wonder why viewership is down.
This “pitch group” is the company that owns them.