Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Journalist as Celebrity


In my life I have gotten to know several anchors and reporters for news channels and, in my eyes, I would I look at them differently because I know they get on TV in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers, including myself. Luckily, I knew them before I ever saw them on the Television and that matters. There is something about looking at the TV, seeing someone’s face and knowing many other people know them too. It’s almost as if they are a local celebrity. Now that changes when we get into national news, because then they almost become a celebrity, like Anderson Cooper, Diane Sawyer and Walter Cronkite. Reporters in print media don’t face that issue and can elude possible distortion with stories that come with being on the television. Sources that are televised act much differently than those on the radio or included in the print reports. It’s due to the fact that they are more likely to know who the reporter is and where this story will end up. Journalists like the anonymity of who they are, because they feel like they would not be able to get all the stories they do if people knew what they looked like.

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