Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist, Trent Orn.

Today is free for all Friday.

I love newscast addiction.

And today I want to talk about that a little bit, but also talk about when news anchors

and news reporters mess up, flub up.

It's just funny to see because they're always so poised and professional, you know?

Mondays and Wednesdays here on the podcast, by the way, we talk about apologetics and theology,

but on Friday we talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And so today I want to talk about newscaster slip ups.

Before I do that, though, a little bit of a primer on newscaster diction and accents,

because you notice they all kind of sound the same, right?

There's a few different reasons for that.

One of them is that as the news industry grew, you know, you had radio in the 1930s and 40s

and then turning into television, you would have newscasters trying to

project an aura of authority and trustworthiness to their audiences.

So a lot of them adopted an accent that presented that, that communicated that,

that came to be known as a transatlantic accent.

So that's kind of a hybrid between accents on the eastern seaboard of the United States

and British accents.

Because when something's British, it always stands so much more intelligent when it's British, you know?

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