outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

why can't they have their own style?

I watch fox news and this Greta van Suchen intones her questions as downward intoning throw away lines almost like a policemen getting the facts of an accident: and how old are you Sir? did you see anything Ma'am? and what was that Sir? so you can't be sure? was anyone else around? This is OK for facts but to use the same manner in an empathy situation is a bit fake: and how are you now Sir? you must be devastated? how are you coping Ma'am? that must be so hard?

Anyway this Carl guy on Ch 9 morning show has taken to copying this Greta bird. That one of them does it is bad enough. That one copies the other is hard to take. But when the copyist is such a try hard and it doesn't work, you just feel like screaming, "Do your own thing mate, do something else but give us a break will ya." Perhaps if he put in the Sir bit or the Ma'am bit it might be better?

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