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But just because someone isn't a trained journalist, it doesn't mean they're just an autocue reader. Life isn't that black and white.
Whataday
Founding member
They used to be different skillsets when the likes of Kenneth Kendall would pitch up and read a script somebody else had written. Nowadays, and especially on a rolling news chanel, the role of the newsreader is to tell the story of things that are happenning, not those which have happened, and so it requires a lot more in the way of interviewing skills and the ability to quickly get up to speed on a situation and be able to ask intelligent questions. A journalist is going to be much more useful than an autocue reader in that situation.
But just because someone isn't a trained journalist, it doesn't mean they're just an autocue reader. Life isn't that black and white.