Everything you thought.

By Thanh Christopher Nguyen 31 May 2004

Anchors do wear pants behind the desk, but as soon as the camera is turned off – at every commercial break, and every pre-taped package – they crack jokes, and thoroughly destroy their aura of professional unbiasedness. They sound like high-school trendy people, but they’re awefully nice to my face. Some even draw silly cartoons while delivering the news – yes, on the papers they constantly shuffle (which do actually have things written on them that they seldom pay much attention to). I edit their video. I make them look good and bad, depending on how good or bad the photographer was, and how motivated I feel at three in the morning.