Hey man, don't try and confuse me with the facts! ;-)

I was referring to the choreography of running the anchors all over the set; that's the infuriating part. That's what emerged in all the stations right after NEWS 9 put in their new fang-dangled two-story behemoth.

Since that set went in at NEWS 9, we've had some of the coldest shows in the history of the world. I used to watch NEWS 9 at 5, 6, and 10pm. After that set went in, it wasn't long before I switched to KOCO and the much warmer, more intimate camera-work.

The first few months KWTV had that set, I actually saw shows that never gave their female anchors a single close-up, instead, they opted to give us every distant shot from every ridiculous position on the set. The first night of their 10pm weekday show was so ridiculous that Mark Shannon even blogged about it and drew a hiliarious diagram of the anchor's movements across the set.

You know as well as I do that stations hire beautiful anchors to put them on camera. A beautiful anchor shot from 25 feet away is just a waste of her salary.

The look and feel of a broadcast is just as important as the journalism, otherwise stations wouldn't spend millions on new sets, graphics packages, and supermodel anchors, they'd just get people off the street that were good at reading a prompter.