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A face trained to deliver disasters in the same calm tone as weather.
means A person, usually on television or radio, whose job is to read out the news in a clear, composed voice.
from A straightforward compound of 'news' and 'reader' — someone who reads the news aloud. It emerged alongside broadcast media in the 20th century, once radio and then television needed a trusted voice (and later face) to deliver the day's events; the word simply describes the job with no hidden trick in its roots.
- origin
- term predates TV, used for radio announcers first
- skill
- reading unfamiliar words aloud without flinching
- trust factor
- viewers rate delivery, not accuracy, as credibility
- teleprompter
- invented in 1950 to hide the eye movement