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Topic History of: Fiona Bruce
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Barney |
Voices and gender aren't relevant.
It's a combination of presence, gravitas, calmness, personality, demeanour, talent, quick-thinking and appearance.
Cronkite didn't have a great TV and radio voice - but most of America remembers him best.
For telling them (for example) of JFK's death, men on the moon - and that the Vietnam war was unwinnable.
As well as a man who would tell the truth - no matter what, and always ask the right questions.
Usually eliciting the true facts, on complex issues.
From the early 60s, Americans would switch Cronkite on first...
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JK2006 |
Yes as I get older and deafer I simply can't hear those high voices; Screech on BBC Breakfast drives me crazy. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
Jo wrote:
"A senior BBC source said Bruce performed superbly in the recent auditions. Her credentials as one of the most established and high-profile journalists on BBC One were also key."
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46486707
There seems to be a recurrent theme on this board that men are inherently superior to females, rather like Mercedes to females' Ford Fiesta. 
For broadcasting, nature has dealt us a blow by giving us (often) higher and softer voices, which dont seem to record as well as lower tones, sadly.
On the other hand, women (not me, it drives me loopy) are very often better at taking instructions from someone yelling in their ears while they are working. |
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robbiex |
Not from me, I suggested Laura Keunsburg. |
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Jo |
"A senior BBC source said Bruce performed superbly in the recent auditions. Her credentials as one of the most established and high-profile journalists on BBC One were also key."
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46486707
There seems to be a recurrent theme on this board that men are inherently superior to females, rather like Mercedes to females' Ford Fiesta. |
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