# Who is your least favo(u)rite newscaster? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 11, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993 "2002-09-11T17:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/1 "2002-09-11T17:43:04Z")
For me, I would have to say **Peter Jennings** is the ultimate puppet head. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/2 "2002-09-11T17:58:53Z")
For me, it’s those two bozos in the morning on “all-news” WTOP-AM here in Washington, DC. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/3 "2002-09-11T18:01:02Z")
Okay, let me amend the title to say Network news… ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/4 "2002-09-11T18:12:27Z")
Ashleigh Banfield. When she was in Afghanistan she died her hair to fit in with the locals, but kept her chic glasses. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/5 "2002-09-12T00:58:30Z")
Brian Williams, that guy seems like your typical talking hairdo as Dave Barry puts it. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/6 "2002-09-12T01:24:43Z")
[Shepard Smith](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1796,00.html), on Fox News Channel. He just creeps me out. I’m not a big fan of [Dan Abrams](http://www.msnbc.com/news/abramsreport_front.asp) on MSNBC either. ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/7 "2002-09-12T01:28:22Z")
I can’t believe it took **7!!!** posts before someone, namely me, dredged up Mr. “No-Spin Zone My Ass!!” himself, Bill O’Reilly. ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/8 "2002-09-12T01:32:36Z")
I don’t think of O Reilly as a newscaster. I think of him as a talk show host, like Rush Limbaugh. Brian Williams needs to get smaller eye guards for when he tans in the booth. He looks like a racoon. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/9 "2002-09-12T01:46:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oblong \* > \*\*Brian Williams needs to get smaller eye guards for when he tans in the booth. He looks like a racoon. \*\* _giggle_ :eek: \<— Brian Williams’ eyes ---
**Author:** ![aramis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aramis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aramis)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/10 "2002-09-12T02:22:20Z")
She barely qualifies as a newscaster, since the reports she does are "human interest " things but I’ve loathed Jeannie Moos (spelling?) for many a year now. Even before CNN, she was a local reporter for a station in Plattsburgh NY and I hated her even then. What made it worse is that in that part of the country before cable, TV stations were spread pretty thin so she was that much harder to get away from. That grating voice, those inane, pointless stories wasting part of my precious time on Earth… ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/11 "2002-09-12T19:56:43Z")
If I have to choose, for TV News I guess I like Peter Jennings, I don’t watch MSNBC, but maybe when Tom Brokaw leaves the news, I might watch Brian Williams. Aren’t all the anchor people for the major networks really old, like retirement age? I wish they would retire and let younger people (like Kevin Williams - I think that was his name, [a few of years ago he and Lisa McCree used to host Good Morning America, but ABC couldn’t keep them going and wouldn’t give them time to build ratings], so they replaced them with Charles Gibson {who retired from GMA - a few months before so Kevin could take over and for Lisa McCree - who had taken over for Joan Lunden} and Diane Sawyer, who I can not stand to watch), if they did I might watch news more. I wish the networks, could get a morning show that I could watch, I don’t watch GMA for the reason above, I sit through the Today Show - I do like Matt Lauer, but I really dislike Katie Couric - in my opinion a Bobblehead doll would be a better choice for Co-Host, and I hate CBS morning news show. As for Radio News - I like Buzz Burbank from the Don & Mike Show, Robin Quivers from the Howard Stern Show, and I like the Onion Radio News. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/12 "2002-09-12T20:31:35Z")
I can’t stand Diane Sawyer or Connie Chung. I’m not too crazy about Dan “What’s the Frequency?” Rather, either. Favorites: Brokaw and Brian Williams Least favorite anchors locally, (in Detroit): Bill Bonds (now retired and hawking cheap furniture in a series of lame TV and radio spots) and Rich Fisher. Happy ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/13 "2002-09-12T20:32:05Z")
I misunderstood/misread the thread, I have some who do I like in the post, but I stand by my dislike of Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric. For TV News I will have to go for Tom Brokaw, I can’t stand his voice. I choose my watchability of the news by voice, that goes for sports, traffic, and weather as well. I don’t think there is a radio news I don’t like. I bet the most liked news, would be Naked News. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/14 "2002-09-12T21:38:23Z")
Male - **Dan “Blather” Rather** (why don’t you RETIRE already?) Female - **Connie “Wang” Chung**. Who in the hell is watching her EVERY NIGHT??? Honorable mention: **Keith Morrison** of “NBC’s Dateline” gives me the heebie jeebies. **Ed Bradley** of 60 Minutes. I don’t know why, but ever since he decided to get an earring, I just get annoyed looking at him. What statement are you trying to make, Ed? “I’m 60, and an earring makes me look younger!” or “Chicks dig me now!” or “Morley was too much of a wuss to do it.” **Ashley “I’m _not_ the female Geraldo! Please take me seriously!” Banfield** ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/15 "2002-09-13T01:04:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Oblong \* > \*\*I don’t think of O Reilly as a newscaster. I think of him as a talk show host, like Rush Limbaugh. > > \*\* O’Reilly is a newscaster. He was even the anchor of a :rolleyes:highly respected:rolleyes:news:rolleyes:program. The :rolleyes:news:rolleyes: program? _Inside Edition_ ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/16 "2002-09-13T03:30:59Z")
There’s a new(ish) late-night female anchor on Headline News (dark hair, very attractive) who makes a REALLY annoying gesture before she reads the first line of every story, like she’s some sort of cyborg loading the next story into her brainpan or something. My husband claims to not notice it but she sort of makes a sort of “here-we-go-again” gesture (where you sort of tilt your head to the side and inhale with a smirk) even if it’s a really serious story. Nearly as aggravating as the smirk of that MSNBC guy. (Aaron Brown? We had a whole pit thread about him!) Locally in the SF Bay Area there’s Leslie Griffith on channel 2, who, in addition to being talentless, bleaches her hair when it’s completely inappropriate for her skin tone (and black eyebrows!!!) On top of that they dress her in peach and pink colors which result in making her look completely orange. She’s paired with the very coherent and professional Dennis Richmond who every so often will turn to the camera after one of her segments and give us a look that seems to say “can you believe this crap?” ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/17 "2002-09-13T10:35:56Z")
Aaron Brown’s on CNN. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/18 "2002-09-13T19:45:38Z")
I don’t watch lots of news, but _Paula Zahn_ is incompetent. There are others apparently just as incompetent on CNN, but (a) I see her the most and (b) she has the interview skills of my ferrets. No, scratch that. I think my ferrets can do a better job, plus they’re cute (a prerequisite, it appears). Their attention span is rather short though, but not much more than the general public’s. I’m also not a fan of _Leslie Stahl_ on 60 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/19 "2002-09-14T02:50:37Z")
Dan “pause after every third word” Rather. Paula “looks like John Elway with boobs” Zahn. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993/20 "2002-09-14T13:37:15Z")
I don’t care for Rather or Chung, either. I’d add the snotty, condescending ABC twins, Jennings and Donaldson, to the list. Locally, the shallow bimbo who does the “Healthwatch” segmentson Omaha’s Channel 7is alternatingly annoying and amusing. Yesterday, her daily malapropism was a real hoot! She made the following statement concerning prostate cancer surgery, " New techniques help men preserve their impotency." [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-least-favo-u-rite-newscaster/127993.md?page=2)