Smaller media markets, like, say, Eugene, OR, tend to have... let's call it quirkier on-air personalities for their local shows. Like the newscasts. Eugene has some memorable weathermen; John Fischer, Tim Chuey, and the bald guy on the NBC affiliate - you tend to remember the face of the guy telling you the forecast for the next 200 days is some variation of "rain." I still encounter Joe Giansante if I happen to catch a Ducks game on some bar's satellite feed. And who can forget the woman who looked like Ally McBeal when the FOX station tried to put together a local newscast (didn't she end up reporting at some other local channel?)(is it wrong to admit that I had a crush on her?)?
The anchors, on the other hand, are a little less memorable for me. I can see faces, but couldn't give you names. Except for one, who was exceptional in that he offensively and unapologetically embraced his role as "the anchor," whose faux gravitas dripped with cheese, whose bright human interest stories were gaggingly cloying... for some completely irrational reason, I could not stand the sight nor sound of this person. It was the one network whose local newscast I would actively avoid.
And now Rick Dancer is running for statewide office? As a Republican? And no one bothered to mention this? Had I known this I would've been donating to Kate Brown a long time ago, just to spite him.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
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some might see a "strong jaw" in that mug, but i see "goiter"...
shayna is in eugene right now, dripping with nostalgia and honing her arguments for why we should return, adopt "alternate" careers, and give peace a dance.
maybe there'll be a spot for a nerdy new local-news anchor available?
He's got a little bitty belt, doesn't he?
I believe that we didn't mention the Danceman because his candidacy is a joke. The Republicans could get a real politician to run, so they convinced Dancer to give it a shot. He's supposed to be introducing himself to the state to put him in position to run for something else (Governor?) one day.
For some reason I was always a KEZI man, so I don't mind dancer as much. Plus he does give awesome sympathetic face.
I feel like if you look up "tool" in the dictionary, one of the faces you'd see would be Mr. Dancer.
Also, cross-referenced under "douche."
I could not believe it when I saw Dancer running for office. Nuh uh.
I miss the Fargo TV personalities. There was a weather guy there who tried to get the phrase "shovel trouble" into as many forecasts as he could. John Fisher is good, but not nearly as entertaining as Hutch Johnson on Valley News.
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