>>- see a male newscaster wearing anything but a shirt, tie and a suit. Jackets, sweaters, hats, vests, t-shirts, scarfs etc are strictly off limits.
>I've seen it plenty - even on national morning news shows

#1 Good - you are luckier than we here with your channels.

>>- see a female newscaster without makeup, even if she's on the street at noon
>Is there a female out there in tv who wants to be on tv without makeup??????

What, are they just scared into this? I would prefer to see them without makeup here and there. May as well appreciate the effort when I see them with, otherwise I'd never know the difference.

BTW, the one time I was in the studio here, and saw the faces I usually see onscreen - they look just as stiff in real life. Prolonged exposure to the camera may do that.

>>- hear everything the person interviewed had to say. Most of the time, you'll hear a couple of sentences.
>Ha ha ha. Who on earth would allow that? Give me a mic and let me go on and on and on and ....

Typical American pushing the envelope. We won't allow anyone do A, because then someone may come and do A++.

So just because there's a real danger that an interviewee may get on a soapbox, you never get to hear more than a simple sentence, or a part of a longer sentence from anyone.

I know I'd hide if a camera with a logo was around, simply because the four words they'd extract from my sentence would sound totally wrong. Even with written word and plenty of time to think it over (as in a weekly magazine) I've had my words twisted a couple of times. Even when I wrote them (!).

>>- hear what local businesses are doing unless they get into really big trouble.
>Simply not true. The news stations here do it all the time

See #1

>>- hear the weather guy confessing they were wrong yesterday
>I hear it too often (which means they were wrong too often) :o) Especially Greg Fishel on WRALTV. Even with 5 computer models helping him, he still gets it wrong. At least he is honest :o)

#1 too... though the guys here were getting it right about 99% of the time. They may miss it by a couple of hours or a dozen miles, but when they missed it big, ssshhhh.

>>- see anything gas-related being shot at the small gas pump deep in the mountains, unless it exploded. It's always close to the studio.
>Nope. Seen that too. Especially when there was the gas shortage they had reporters out in the field in the mountains reporting from onsite

See #1 - and good for you, they didn't catch the Belgrade syndrome (when they attribute to Belgrade things that exist in other places, even more so, like the košava wind which is no more than 60km/h by the time it comes there, but double that near Vršac - but the reporters have no clue, they think košava is somehow endemic; they often watch the rest of the country with disinterest equaling that of American press's regarding the rest of the world :)).

>>- see any news from third world countries unless there's a putsch, accident with at least 50 dead, a natural disaster, or a war. Nothing normal ever happens there.
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>I agree with that one. I see a lot of news from many countries and even Univision only focuses on the tragedies or demonstrations. However, since Univision covers all of latin america and everywhere else, how long would the news last if they covered everything?

So just because "everything" would take too long, that's the excuse to show nothing, eh? How about some judgment, editorial wisdom etc? I'm saying there's no will to even try, and it's a circulus vitiosus: nobody wants content from the rest of the world because they don't even know it exists, having forgotten about it because they never see it offered and aren't reminded of it; it isn't offered because nobody wants it.

But catch-22 is there for the brave to break it.

> I do see sappy stories though on 'local kid makes good' or 'single mom raises money for a cause' etc from strange locations

But nothing about, say, fashion, culture, commerce, entertainment, local sports, inventors, education, bands, new architecture? I've never seen any of that, but I'd bet a beer that they do exist. It's just that I have no proof. It's a timber which must have made a sound somewhere, it's just that I haven seen anyone who heard it.