[Ditter]

I don’t watch the ABCNBCCBS national evening news any more. I watch our Houston news at 6pm and I don’t like it very much either. There is a couple who try to ‘act out’ the news for us. Lots of hand gestures, pleading looks (to each other) and sad faces for the bad stuff, then smiles (at each other and us) when they tell us a happy story. I feel like I am being talked down to, I must search around for something better.

Just tell me what happened (da*mn it) leave the emotion for me.

[RobbyS]

I liked it better when they just read the news. All I want is someone to narrate what is happening, not interpret it, except to clarify what footage may show. And I want someone who knows HOW to read. I recall forty years ago when I was in Switzerland and watched the news being well-read by a very pretty woman with a great voice. Couric can’t measure up to that standard.

[-=SoylentSquirrel=-]

"...There is a couple who try to ‘act out’ the news for us. Lots of hand gestures, pleading looks (to each other) and sad faces for the bad stuff,..."

I hear you. It is a sad day for TV journalism in Houston that I can turn the volume down and still get a feel for the story from the anchor's smirks and frowns.