I lived in Texas for a while back in the 80s and all the news broadcasters had northern accents. Seems that there are some careers where people actively seek to eliminate the accent.
Obama is just hiring marxist acedemics like himself and it doesn’t matter where they’re from.
Obama is just hiring marxist acedemics like himself and it doesn’t matter where they’re from.
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He has the added ‘burden’ of surrounding himself with people that make it so he is the ‘smartest’ and ‘best looking’ person in the room.
That's an old, old practice in radio and TV broadcasting. Long ago the industry chose the Midwestern accent as the one to use. And they do.
It could be much, much worse, you know. What if they had settled on Brooklynese?
I agree.
I have work as an engineer in Alabama and Texas and all the engineers from the South have dropped any accent.
You do hear a “used ta could” once in a while though.
Obama is just hiring marxist acedemics like himself and it doesn’t matter where they’re from.
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Obama was just an adjunct lecturer for black studies students, telling them how the US Constitution affected black people.
The heads of the law school at the U of Chicago refused his application to become a professor. The Chancellor made them find an office for him anyway, so they found a vacant room and put one desk and one chair in the room.
I don’t recall the source, but I read that here on FR several years ago. .....Obama is NOT an academic and has NEVER been a law professor!