Anchors (please go) Away

There’s just something about prim and proper, finely groomed local newscasters losing their shit while the cameras/microphones roll. Especially here in Los Angeles, home of the plastic smile, inconsequential doublespeak and the mercilessly banal celebrity spin machine.

Case in point: local LA news anchors Paul Moyer (of NBC4) and Ann Martin (of CBS2) engage in some healthy banter back when they both used to work for ABC7, caught on (audio) tape before the broadcast begins. Since both left Channel 7 for another local affiliate, you know this shit must be good. The highlights come late in the tape, so let me give you a little taste to keep you listening:

Moyer: “Y’know, you go home and have a couple of shooters and I don’t know what the fuck happens, but you come back and you’re not the same lady.”

Martin: “That’s not true”

Moyer: “Some nights it is, Ann.”

Please note Moyer’s dulcet conversational tones in throwing his co-worker under the bus, and Martin’s splendid professionalism in denying any wrongdoing while simultaneously keeping from losing her lunch. Is there any doubt that LA news anchors are the cream of the crop?

In case you’re wondering, yes, I have officially fallen off the Defamer wagon. I was clean for a month and a half…I thought I could make it…alas, I failed. But since I'm on the topic...Johnny Depp hates the Oscars? (Boo!) A new Nikki Finke article? (Hiss!) Tara Reid is a genius? (Huzzah!)

I hate this town.


Moyer.............................................and Martin
Together again