Culture
Culture Report

Golden girls - USA

Preface

To counter dipping audience figures and falling advertising revenues, TV news increasingly offers a diet of soft stories, banal banter and Identikit blondes. Who is to blame, a public unwilling to engage with global affairs, or the networks trying to brand news as entertainment?

Credits

Writer: Edward Helmore



01 :: Period table of blondness: network anchors always tint their hair lighter, never darker

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