Tuesday, August 27, 2013

ANN7: Worst news reader of the lot on DStv's third local news channel can't read or pronounce; creates non-sensical sentences as she bumbles on.


We have a winner! So intensely bad is this ANN7 news reader on Gupta News that barely anything she says makes sense. Watch this face. Remember it. When you see her, remember: Nothing will make sense, but you do NOT have Aphasia.

I cannot currently show you a clip under fair use on YouTube to illustrate and report on news - Aiplex Software might likely have it "censored" and scrubbed from the interwebs on behalf of Infinity Media which runs the disastrously bad ANN7 (DStv 405) news channel on DStv - but it's epically bad.

It's so bad, that at the end, once again someone from the ANN7 news studio floor, or perhaps the control room (and who is not supposed to be heard, is audible in another technical mistake and can be heard with an exasperated voice going:  "What??!")

I cannot show you the hilarious clip which will take your breath away, but this ANN7 news reader is in my estimation the worst of the entire bunch - yet bestowed with the formerly respected position of sitting behind the anchor desk.

While autocue and Teleprompter issues are certainly partly to blame for ANN7's disastrous launch and deplorably bad ongoing on-air appearance, its clear that this news reader cannot correctly pronounce - or perhaps have never seen - certain words.

"Misuse" (practised on-air as "masseuse"), "barrel" pronounced as "bar", "gathered" as "governed" - and haltering, stuttering, faltering reading and terrible on-air delivery, sees her create whole sentences which makes no sense at all .

It gets this ANN7 news reader a Gupta gold star for worst of the worst.