Reply #33: I personally think it's a deliberate joke on Rupert's part

[Mike Daniels]

If fact, I bet this is how Rupert pitched the show at a director's meeting:

Let's give a weather reporter, a sportscaster and a female general interest/entertainment reporter 3 hours of air time. Despite the fact that we'll present these three reporters as serious newscasters we'll have the female anchor wear a top with a plunging neckline and a skirt so short that her legs need to be crazy-glued into a crossed position to avoid the risk of her flashing the viewers at home.

We'll have these three lightweights discuss serious political matters that are loaded with nuance and various levels of gray and have them turn them into a simple matter of black or white.

We'll prop up the three anchors with commentators and paid advisors that are so biased that even an amoeba would be insulted by our claim that the program is "fair and balanced".

In short, we'll create a show that's such a train wreck that only people with IQ's lower than a plate of jello would watch it without their heads exploding....

AND IT WILL MAKE US A FORTUNE.