Female Anchors: How they REALLY got to the top

Photo courtesy of KUSI TV


Women are starting to take over the news desk! Hooray! But wait a minute...it's not their excellent journalism skills that got them there!

It seems women are being promoted to anchor because viewers are "more willing to accepts news from a young woman." So the population's mentality about women is starting to change. People are finally taking female journalists seriously....or at least that is what I would like to think. Here are some of the more realistic reasons behind these recent promotions:

1.People probably just prefer looking at a young women than an old man. Even though young women are saying the same thing as the previous anchorman, women can sustain people's attention for a longer period of time. Because even if the news is incredibly slow, at least people have something pretty to look at.

2. News organizations want to differentiate themselves from the competition. They want to stand out from the traditional news format. But what will happen onces almost every news organization has female anchors? Will it become the new tradition and have news agencies reverting back to men in order to be different?

3. News organizations were running out of men. Many of the high-profile male anchors are retiring or being let go. News organizations just can't afford to pay their expensive contracts. And there are plenty of hard-working, (and probably desperate) female journalists waiting in line behind them for a lot less!

But regardless of how these women got promoted, the point is....THEY GOT PROMOTED TO ANCHOR! This is the first step to letting the world see how amazing these women are as journalists. Eventually, they will gain credibility and people will start listening to them rather than criticizing their hairstyles.