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A trained voice that makes bad news sound like it has great posture.
means A person who reads or reports the news on television or radio for a living.
from A straightforward 20th-century blend of 'news' plus 'broadcaster,' itself from 'broadcast' — originally a farming term for scattering seed widely, borrowed by early radio to describe scattering a signal out to many listeners at once. 'Newscaster' took root as radio and then television news became its own profession, needing its own word.
- voice training
- neutral accent invented to hide where they are from
- teleprompter trick
- eyes track text while looking straight at you
- origin
- term coined by NBC in 1928
- deadpan delivery
- same tone for weather and war