To take this one step further...  Why is it that the local news will send 
out some pretty face to the police station, court house, accident scene, 
etc..., late in the evening, to give a live report hours and hours after the 
news is no longer news.  And sending out some poor soul to say, "yes, there 
is ice on the overpass and it's really cold out here, back to you John and 
Gloria".  But the bane of my sports watching is the pretty face who does 
sideline reporting.  "John, Coach Parcells says that if they play better 
than the other team, and score more points, they might win the game.  He 
said that the defense has to stop the other team and the offense has to get 
on a roll.  Back to you."  Sigh!  Eyes rolled back in head!  Thank God for 
my PVR!
Phillip
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "steven c" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Classical Radio, was [ARSCLIST] Mercury co-founder 
Irving Green passes


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
>> My own pet peeve is a news broadcast where they're talking to someone on 
>> a
> satellite phone. The
>> information is so inaudible as to be not worth hearing live. Why not have
> a producer get the salient
>> details and then read them over the air? Videophones are one step worse,
> but cable news channels are
>> the bottom dwellers in the brackish pond of broadcast journalism.
>>
>> Cellphones have introduced a whole new level of inaudibility to phone
> conversations. I try to avoid
>> them whenever possible.
>>
> Well, being about nine days older than dirt (and twice as polluted!) I
> can recall back when international (usually European) reports were, I
> always thought, transmitted by short-wave radio...complete with fading,
> phasing problems and CW or RTTY QRM in the background...
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
>