I DON’T know if you have noticed it, but the Africa News Network (ANN7) is awful. It is not comically bad, like the Spanish telemundos that DStv recently started showing. It is just unspeakably, and unwatchably awful.When I first watched the channel, I found myself asking who the anchors and presenters were. South Africa has a small and insular news media industry, and new newsrooms and broadcast studios rarely feature new talent that hasn’t been anywhere else before.The launch of PowerFM proved as much — the line-up features familiar voices such as Azania Mosaka, Pabi Moloi and Siki Mgabadeli. The new station forced a rejig of line-ups all over the place as DJs and presenters moved about, but few stations introduced new faces. Certainly not an entire line-up of completely unknown people.That should have been a clue for ANN7. It isn’t even like they got anchors from other countries. Many of them are former models. Fox News in the US goes for a similar vibe with its bombshell present...
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