Should a news anchor actually have to say "Listen to this"?
It does seem a little repetitively redundant.
News programs suck.
You're already watching the news, which means you're listening to things that the anchor is saying...so why does the anchor feel obligated to emphasize a point by prefacing it with "Listen to this"? It's moronic.
So are most news anchors.
One of our pastimes at work is to watch the news program at lunch and make fun of the anchor for saying stupid things or make fun of the stories being told on the news for pretending that they're news. The fact that some musician put out a new video the day before they go into therapy is not news...I don't really care about it. The lady who won a million dollars and a hug from a mascot clown at a burger chain is not news.
Not long ago, the anchor decided to interrupt a sentence with "listen to this" in order to emphasize an ironic point in the story. It actually didn't make the story newsworthy...so it became a Sametime Status.
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