Talk:News presenter

message: Is Lavender Cheung actually notable? He recieves no Google hits outside Wikipedia and mirrors, so it's tough for me to judge. - Seth Ilys 20:26, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lavender Cheung 

message: The list of so called "Notable News anchors" is becoming more of a LIST of news anchors. Some of the anchors listed have not done anything notable. Some of the anchors listed deserve to be on the list, but that section definently needs clean up. Also, would the list be considered POV? --Kfrogers 06:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable News anchors list 

message: Hello. Can someone add a section on what seems (to me) to be a fairly recent trend: video broadcasts of actual newspapers, sometimes with (and even without) comment by a "presenter" who turns the pages while the camera pans around. A fairly lame way to present the news, but I'm sure the cost is minimal. The TV news equivalent of reading/describing the comics page over the radio, and a short step above doing the same with blogs or web pages. Ewlyahoocom 01:29, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadcast images of newspapers 

message: The list is the vast majority of the article and is unwieldy and not useful.  I feel that it should either be moved to its own separate "List of" article or simply trimmed down dramatically. — wfaulk 20:17, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable News Anchors examplefarm 

message: It's embarassing to see the overkill there.  Basically every newsreader on Australian TV.  No, they are ALL NOT notable!  Sections for each city is ridiculous!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 17.255.252.10 (talk) 07:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian newsreaders section 

message: Just a thought, but considering the percentage of young Americans (and let's not joke; most Wikipedians are also American) that get their news mainly from the Comedy Central shows The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, shouldn't Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert be included in this list? 12.216.169.187 (talk) 18:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Satire 

message: This article should focus on what news presenters are and what they do rather than on listing everyone who'se ever been a news anchor in his life.Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 19:36, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I moved the list to its own article [[List of news presenters by nationality]]. 

message: I've watched the news from Sweden on and off for the past 30 years, and have never heard the post of anchorman referred to as a cronkiter. A little web searching revealed no such thing except for English language articles concerning the death of Walter Cronkite.
Looking at the Swedish version of the news presenter page gives these terms: Programledar, programvärd, programpresentatör, and nyhetsankar.
Perhaps some validation of this would be in order?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.49.122.238 (talk) 12:57, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the assertion, and cited Ben Zimmer's account of how this urban myth seems to have arisen. Dactylion (talk) 20:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anchorman as cronkiter in Swedish 

message: What is the name for a radio presenter, not neccesarily about news?. And the participans (professionally or often) in a radio program (space). Links to this conceopts would be added to the see also section. Regards.  --Nopetro (talk) 08:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio presenter 

message: It would be nice if the section on "etymology" gave even the slightest hint where the word comes from, not just who supposedly was the first to be called it (which, BTW, the article on Cronkite disagrees with, and says he wasn't the first to be called "anchor". It's my understanding that an etymology should include why they called the person "anchor", what it means. When I look up the etymology of a word, I'd like to know more than "Its first recorded use was in 1884 in the New York Tribune. The end." In short, why the hell is it "anchor", and what does that imply. Why not call him "chief reader", or "masthead"? AnnaGoFast (talk) 16:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of "anchor". 

message: Half the darned article is long tedious paragraphs of "criticism." Can't we cut that down some? (Or eliminate it completely?) 155.213.224.59 (talk) 16:53, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not only long, but the points being made are written largely in Wikipedia's own voice, making it non-neutral. Statements of opinion need to be specifically attributed to people or groups making them, not stated as facts. WP Ludicer (talk) 21:33, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much criticism 

message: objective,
Authentic,
Understandable,
Clarity of words,
Timeliness,
speak like known, and
good command on words Mallicktitiksha20 (talk) 02:38, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualities of an anchor