Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 04, 2017

Ted has got that right.

Ted, you’re being generous in your measure of their cognitive abilities. TV pundits look and sound good and that’s it.

They should be sentenced.

12-year-olds? Closer to retarded 8-year-olds…with agendas.

They are hired to play to the average intelligence of the viewers.

They’re not 12, but the longer you listen to them the more they convince you of it.

Is the news “dumbed down” ?

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YES !

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.I am, unfortunately, not making this up !

Speak with any news copy editor for the talking heads, and they’ll tell you, that the vocabulary level of you evening news must not exceed a 7th grade level of comprehension.

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" Big Words confuse the viewers ". I was told by a former network news chief, relatively recently.

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Sadly, with the exception of the Opinion Page Contributors, ( Newspaper Columnist, in the old days ), the print media isn’t far behind in simplistic writing.

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The average American, it seems, has morphed into Homer Simpson…DUH !

Very low brow.

WareS Walter KronKite wehn ya needs him…???

At least they would know what “dabbing” is.

12-year-olds who majored in journalism and therefore know nothing about anything, except that they know that their livings depend on making things entertaining, introduced by dramatic music worthy of an action movie score, leaving you more ignorant than before, since you still know little, but now what little you know is incorrect.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

~George Carlin

BY 12-year-olds. FOR 12-year-olds.

Suddenly I feel very old. I do know what ‘dabbing’ is, though.

Where is Susan Sunshine??? We need to see your baby face.

Especially on the internet

We have a new anchor on Fox News in Portland, the last one was so bad….at least she gave everyone something to talk about.

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My daughter called her Greasy Hair, and she once wore a light blue tee shirt that revealed more than I wanted to see.

The local Fox station has had some strange anchors. Once we had a new one from an affiliate in Detroit. First day she came on dressed in a tight white suit covered in rhinestones.

The rest of her outfits were better suited to a nightclub.

Clearly Detroit is far more sophisticated than Portland! LOL

The anchor on NBC s=has been there as long as I can remember, and she NEVER ages! I’m beginning to think she is a robot.

Never saw cleavage like that on a 12 year old.

It does a lot to explain how the electoral college just voted for a third grader to POTUS.

and ultra liberal

Important issues of the day: Who’s Kimmy dating now that she and what’s-his-name are slitting up?

Since the passing of Mr. Cronkite.