Take 10: TV newsreaders

Newsreaders of the sitty-downy kind - good and bad, real and surreal - are this week's fare Trevor McDonald's trademark trustworthy nod They are some of the most weighty, well-spoken and familiar visages on the flickering visage-box in the corner of the room. So let us take a moment to honour newsreaders, real and not real ... by making a completely arbitrary list in no particular order at all. Whether fictional or factual, they're all familiar, measured voices of trustworthiness. Or should be. The real ones generally are measured and trustworthy, the fake ones generally ... well, not, but that's the point (although that's not always the case). Still, newsreaders they all are. I've mainly stuck with the kind that keep their feet under the desk so you can never be sure if they're wearing trousers or not - but if we were to... [read full story]