I have finally figured out what the announcers in north texas do to sing-song so much. Maybe they are being taught this in college, perhaps they are being hired by someone that loves the sound. Nevertheless it annoys me. It reminds me of nursery care centers and puts me into action to switch over to CDs.
The female announcers on both kera and the classic one raise and lower, they alter their intonation often, and without emotional reason. You can also hear them gather their first breath then race out across the sentence. I have just now figured that they are humming as they start. I mean, they begin speaking using their nose rather than their lips and mouth. The sounds comes out for just a moment , from their nose, then they open their mouth for the remaining portion.
Texas hummers. What bummers.
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Op-Ed Contributor – Mind Over Mass Media – NYTimes.com
NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
actually Steve, upon TV’s arrival, it was proclaimed a universal good. It was held that at last all the world could see the world. That museums and theatre would be presented to a wider audience than ever before. That the arts, literature, world knowledge would increase. That this was a university for all. It would become the greatest tower of knowledge ever built.
It doesn’t appear to be much more, after fifty years, than a well hung, well lit, flashing window brought to you by the following sponsors.
This is something that someone who follows arts & their arrival, having more than a media memory of this world should know. & I do.
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