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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Whither the TV news anchor?

In a piece in the New Republic, former Inquirer reporter Michael Schaffer explores the growing small-town obsession with their local news reporters, profiling the Larry Mendte and Alycia Lane scandal to argue that these many U.S. cities “outside Los Angeles, New York, or Washington” lionize their TV anchors in the absence of “real” celebrities.

(Yes, Philadelphia is a small town.)
Posted by Michael Klein @ 9:25 AM  Permalink | 4 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:50 AM, 02/26/2009
    This is not exactly Toledo !!! Small town.....I think not.
    — mick314
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:27 AM, 02/26/2009
    Small minded towns it what he probably meant. When a weather reporter's life makes the gossip column, you know you live in squaresville.
    — WriteWinger
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 5:05 PM, 02/26/2009
    Yeah we need some good gossip like...um remember summer the stripper and the main line murder? That was good stuff! I will make it my mission to prowl the nudie bars to find the next summer......
    — MaMaMonkey
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Michael Klein, the editor/producer of philly.com/Food, writes about the local restaurant scene in his Inquirer column "Table Talk." Have a question? Email it! See his Inquirer work here.
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