Swimsuit Model To Host Local News
Outrage expressed over lack of credibility
Former swimsuit model, WWE Diva, and Barker’s Beauty, Lauren Jones is scheduled to begin hosting the local news in Tyler, TX as part of the new Fox reality show “Anchorwoman”. Predictably people are too stupid to recognize a good thing when they see it:

NEW YORK — An upcoming Fox reality seriesabout a model-turned-TV journalist is causing a stir in the East Texas city where “Anchorwoman” is being produced.
Model Lauren Jones arrived last week in Tyler, Texas, for a 30-day stint at KYTX-TV, a CBS affiliate, that will include co-anchoring the 5 p.m. newscast today.
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Jones is a swimsuit model and actress whose credits include WWE’s “SmackDown!” and “The Guiding Light.” She has no journalism experience; the show will be about whether Jones can hack it in TV news. She arrived in Tyler a week ago and has been put through what a station official calls intensive training in how to read a TelePrompTer and report stories on her own. (Question - If it only takes a week why are there so many journalism schools? Are they implying that Jones is a super-genius who can master this complex subject matter in a very short period of time, or that reporters are incredible dullards?)
…“One of the last sacred grounds of integrity in local television is the local newsroom, so I guess I would say I’m disappointed to see a station, much less one in our own community, that has evidently sold its integrity,” said Brad Streit, vp and GM for KLTV-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tyler.
Adds KETK-TV GM Mike DeLier of the NBC affiliate: “I see this as a stunt, and it’s a self-admitted stunt and not a journalistic endeavor.”
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KYTX station president and GM Phil Hurley shrugs off the criticism, pointing Friday to the big story on cable news.
“Journalism credibility? I think that’s somewhat amusing when all I see today on the cable news is Paris Hilton, nonstop,” he said. “This is a TV show. It’s going to be a comedy. They just chose to shoot it at our station.”
Hurley, whose station features Stormy the Weather Dog in every newscast, said it isn’t the money that’s driving him to participate. (The station and the participants are being paid to appear.)
“As the new guy in town, we saw it as a promotional tool to show a lot of sampling in our newscast,” Hurley said. But he nixed Fox’s plans to use billboards showing Jones in a bikini. (Why you idiot? Have her do the news in a bikini more people will watch)
Of course Lauren Jones is no Melissa Theuriau

but she is fairly easy on the eyes.
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June 11th, 2007 at 7:12 am
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June 11th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Love to see what Brad Streit has been airing on his TV news that has such journalistic integrity.
In her biography, Linda Ellerbee (who also hails from Texas) commented on the fact that she was advised to pay her dues, slug through the bad stories, bla bla bla…and then Phylllis George ended up in the anchor chair.
Whatever faults Dan Rather may have had, at least he had some inkling of what integrity truly means.
Now I just have to figure out who this Melissa Theuriau is…
June 11th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
All a news anchor does is read from a teleprompter. Why not give the job to somebody who is easy on the eyes? All these good-looking, unemployed actors and actresses in Hollywood, and I have to watch Furnell Chatman read the news? WTF?
June 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
NOBODY’S Melissa T…NOBODY
June 13th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
NOBODY’S Melissa T…NOBODY
June 13th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I suppose that Dan Rather will have a problem with this gal too. The guy is impossible to please.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Is there anything more pretentious than local television news?
September 5th, 2007 at 6:03 am
I’ve worked at stations and like you said earlier. All they’re doing is reading from a telepromter. That’s it! The news stories are not written by them. It’s written by writers. The producer is the one who puts it all together and the director tells them what to do.