While you can understand KSN's desire to boost morale with fun things like dressing up its anchors on Halloween newscasts, it just didn't seem right to have serious news read by anchors in costume.
I noticed that it was done during the morning newscast by Toni Valliere, pictured, and Lucas McDonald (I guess it was them; I couldn't see their faces.), and the 5 p.m. newscast with Tiffany Alaniz and Gary Bandy.
A cute feature or two about Halloween, alongside the features on how parents can watch out for perverts on the annual holiday would have been more than enough without the costuming.
Sure, many businesses, including some banks and grocery stores, allow employees to dress up on Halloween, but a news program, while it doesn't have to imitate a funeral, does need some dignity.
I don't agree with you very often Randy but you are right here. If they want to dress up they should do it at the end of the show after a commercial or something. The Today show is a good example. I couldn't take them seriously. What if there was a plane crash or something?..how would they handle that?
ReplyDeleteYup, I knew it would only be a matter of time before you'd turn on Toni.
ReplyDeleteNot at all. Toni's great; the costumes were terrible.
ReplyDeleteI don't see a problem with them wearing costumes. Lighten up!
ReplyDeleteplease verify your information before you speak. Yes, morning show did wear costumes and read news. Tiffany did not read the news last night for that exact reason. They tossed back to Jim in the studio to read it.
ReplyDeleteActually, I turned it over to watch the news, but when I saw the costumes, I just figured it was another case of poor judgment and I turned the station. It may be unfair, but based on my initial impressions of "Live with Gary and Tiffany," I had every reason to expect that was what was going to happen. Going back to Jim Jackson was a good move; staying out of Halloween costumes would have been a better one.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Randy. Not a place for costumes.
ReplyDeleteWhoever it was wearing the old people costumes, you couldn't understand a damn thing they were saying. And then the "here's what you missed on the morning show segment," WHAT A JOKE! BLAH! A BIG THUMBS DOWN TO KSN FOR MAKING THE NEWS A JOKE ON HALLOWEEN!
ReplyDeleteI don't want somebody in a costume reading me the news. And then Toni is trying to use a voice fitting for her costume, what an embarrasement! Her and Lucas saw their credibilty circle the drain on that one.
ReplyDeleteKSN made a bad decision and it would have been more appropriate if they were dressed as clowns because it was a circus.
How can you compromise your credibility if you have none?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind catching Tiffany Alaniz in costume... I think she would make a great French Maid, er cheerleader! :P
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice if KODE did the same thing. I've noticed that if you watch them both at the same time by switching back and forth or even better, watch their shows at a television store where you can see them at the same time, the stories, video and everything is the same usually in the same order. I don't know if that applies to dressing silly on Halloween.
ReplyDeleteI think Randy has a crush on Alaniz, and is behaving much the same way pubescent teenage boys act toward thier crushes
ReplyDeleteBetter than him having a crush on Jim or Gary... Anyway, Tiffany is sexy!
ReplyDeleteJack D you need to get a hobby and quit writting about Tiffany on the Internet you physco.
ReplyDeletehey, Jack D..can write about anyone he wishes, you need to get a hobby so that you don't fill your time reading dumbass comments on an obscure blog entry from an even more obscure blog
ReplyDeleteDid Tiffany dress-up as a competent news anchor? That would have been interesting and unprecedented.
ReplyDeleteLee: Can we come to your office and pick on your job performance?
ReplyDeleteLee George..... This couldn't be KODE weatherman Lee George who, way back in 1970 or so, predicted snow flurries for the Joplin area, and we got about three FEET of the white stuff? Anyway, thanks for bringing back a fond childhood memory of a little four-year-old racing off the end of his front porch into a snow bank. Thankfully, my parents spotted my chubby little hand sticking out above the snow, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this today.
ReplyDeleteLee, you must have hit a nerve with someone :) Besides, no amount of dressing up could make Tiffany good.
ReplyDeleteI saw a picture if Tiffany from a news clip where she had on a hot pink,low cut, formal dress?? What the....??? Please get this superficial chic off the air!!!
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