Why most female newscasters have the same hair

If we draw an analogy to stagecraft and &quot;Ann Anchor&quot; is a character from a popular play, it isn&#x27;t unreasonable to expect a performer to dress up for a role. Actors sometimes go as far as losing or gaining weight or muscle mass to better fit a role. Like the theatre, television is show business.<p>Beauty standards are narrower for women in TV because beauty standards are narrower for women period. Decades of feminism have done nothing to change the fact that being beautiful and fashionable is still far more important for women than for men.<p>TV executives don&#x27;t personally care how anchors look. They care about viewer numbers and everything you see on screen is optimised toward that. If having a particular look boosts the numbers, then they will want that look. If having two heads boosted the numbers, they&#x27;d want that too. It&#x27;s no different than politics: Only the voters can be blamed for electing bad politicians.

Do 95.8 percent of female newscasters have the same hair? I don&#x27;t see it. Whats the source of that number? Where are the examples? All I see in the article is advertising and counter examples.<p>From what I can tell, the women in news just like the women in real life seem to change their hairdo every other day.

TV is so dying, they don&#x27;t even know it.<p>In one way, I&#x27;m worried about the quality of news reporting now when traditional media is slowly withering away, but since they are focusing on haircuts, I don&#x27;t think it really matter. The quality journalism is already mostly gone, and what&#x27;s left can be found in a small number of online and print publications, read by a small number of people.

Skimmed around for mentioning color keying but didn&#x27;t find anything. That being said, I&#x27;ve long noticed the weird uniform of it all. And if you are on Sinclair or Fox you have to be blonde.<p>A few years ago I was in an art and technology exhibit. One of the neater exhibits was a scrape of all the profile pictures on Yahoo personals (this was a while ago) and all the women&#x27;s photos looked the same and the men&#x27;s were all over the place with hats or props it was rather crazy to see. I keep thinking of peacocks whenever I remember back on it.

They are optimizing for their audience. Like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JRehling&#x2F;status&#x2F;1029374020037238784?s=19" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;JRehling&#x2F;status&#x2F;1029374020037238784?s=19</a>

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