It’s fun to have beers with (No. 14)
Local TV news reporters who delight in ripping the anchor promos run by their own stations.
It's actually been ages since I had that pleasure. But once, in a previous life, I enjoyed hearing a couple of reporters mock a promo campaign featuring an anchor who had zero role in actually covering the news. He just read what was placed in front of him, frowning or smiling as warranted.
But in a promo series airing at the time, he was depicted as this hard-charging newsman out there gathering facts and facing down trembling public officials.
"I think that's the only time in his life he held a notebook," said one of his less-than-admiring colleagues.
