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That's pretty common in broadcasting. Aside from Dan Rather, I can't immediately think of national nightly news broadcasters who have a regional accent. And I'm guessing Rather suppressed the Texas in his voice.

 

That goes both ways. If I hear a New York or Boston accent, I immediately deduct IQ points.
Just because I talk slow, doesn't mean I am slow.

 

Does Demmings have a chance?

 

Better than Charlie Crist has of beating DeSantis but Little Marco is still the favorite

 

Note to young sports writers: Working at the Villages Daily Sun can open doors for you.

 

Always saw that job posted on journalismjobs and wondered what that gig was like.

 

Back in my upwardly mobile days it was the Maui News

 

And then released it on Election Night 2000 like a swarm of fireflies from a Mason jar.

 

I hear you can get to Tahoe from there on your golf cart.

 

Tennessee is a state that has elected many distinguished public officials. For example, Cordell Hull, FDR's Secretary of State was from Tennessee.

I was born in 1957 so in my lifetime Al Gore, Sr., Al Gore, Jr. and Howard Baker were long serving senators from the state. I don't think any other state can claim three such outstanding senators in that period.

Now the state sends Marsha Blackburn to Washington. Can I gently ask what the hell happened?

 

Heck, Fred Thompson, Bill Frist, and Bob Corker were good people.

 

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I hear you. My twang really came out amid pandemic. When my kid imitates it I know it's bad.
Read something on this but can't remember where - that lengthy isolation auto-returned us to our more natural and relaxed patterns of speech.