What do you think about newswomen on TV dressing like they are going to a cocktail party?

I could care less. They can dress like bag ladies or strippers for all I care. It’s the content that is important.

I think it’s the general trend for women not to wear clothing that is so “corporate.” I’d rather not see them in jackets and suits. To me, jackets and suits don’t look too comfortable. I’m guessing also that some people would rather see the more revealing clothes. Here in NY, many anchorwomen look like models. Maybe more heavy than models, but still beautiful faces and great hair.

As long as they don’t have their boobs hanging out, I don’t really care. I saw the dress a weather presenter was wearing and was told to put a cardi on, and I did not see the problem. It was a bit sparkly and her arms and shoulders were bare, but she was hardly showing too much flesh.

There is a stupid kerfuffle going on about the weather presenter ( per @Earthbound_Misfit above ) who was wearing a cute beaded cocktail dress for her weather segment (not at all lascivious) and was handed a cardigan to put on while presenting… giant heaps of misunderstanding ensued.
a) the lovely dress she wore to work in the first place had a design that made the cameras go crazy (pattern of a certain size) so she put the little black dress on – i.e. it wasn’t her first choice, but it wasn’t a bad choice anyway.
b) the morning program she is on is full of jokes the staff poke at each other, including regular criticism of clothes
c) nobody forced her to put the sweater on, she took it as a joke from the off-camera person – i.e. the network is NOT evil (at least not about that).

Considering what passes as a “celebrity” these days, their agents are most likely persuading them to dress that way to catch the eye of some reality show producer

TV “news” is entertainment. The appearance of their hosts, the graphics and theme music, and their lack of real content are what is important.

I would watch the weather more if the weathercaster were more scantily dressed.

for example (nsfw)

The worst party about cocktail-dress-gate is that the woman said “now I look like a librarian” – how insulting to librarians..

The days of suits and pant suits are over. That’s really all it is. TV personalities still have to “dress up” though. Locally the males wear like dress shirts and the ladies usually wear dresses. Nothing too sexy or over the top. I think it’s better than the way it was. There was this article floating around the internet that showed a large number of female meteorologists wear the same dress.

Ah, for the days of Walter Cronkite, when being a TV news/sports/weather anchor was a desired and respected end unto itself, and not seen as an entry level job into a potentially lucrative position as a TV star or ‘personality’.

I have noticed the trend here. I don’t really care what they are wearing, but I do notice that the woman is in a sleeveless dress and their co-host male is in a suit. If it is 20 degrees out, I do wonder if the heat is turned up for her, then the guy in the suit has to be sweating.

I haven’t paid attention to the news in forever. I don’t have an antenna and I don’t buy cable. But from Googling the local channels, they seem to still have the 90s trend of the conservatively attractive 30-ish woman alongside the 60s-dapper 40-ish man and the occasional silver fox.

I have noticed female reporters on The Weather Channel wearing cleavage-revealing clothing. I suppose when you’re literally a 24-hour channel that talks about the weather, you have to do something to make it worth tuning in.

I agree that the weather reporters and certain anchor desk females seem like they are competing for the tightest fitting dress contest and I get that they do this to attract viewers in the highly contested daily news programming.

But when you speak of female journalists/news anchors I still see the vast majority of them wear stylish yet professional looking suits. Think Catie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Lesely Stahl etc.

I think it’s time for another list of First World Problems…

Out of professional character.

These days there isn’t much credibility left for so called newspersons to wreck.

News channel these days are like commercial products..you have to look attarctive to sell any product which applies in this case also.

@elbanditoroso I always wear a cocktail dress to work as do all my colleagues. Including the men

I think it’s just another example of how absurdly oversexualized the female form is in our current culture. Sex sells and the female body is more sexualized and probably more consumed than ever before. I watch very little TV, I don’t follow movies, I don’t read magazines or pay much attention to pop culture, the shift in the last 10 years is really startling if you haven’t been going along for the ride. Once in a while I watch cable TV and it is a bizarre experience. My husband recently talked me into getting it for our house and I deeply regret agreeing to it even though it hasn’t happened yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0mZVM0lnXo&t=6m00s

They are just a bunch of vapid talking heads so I never really think about them. The more mainstream the media, the less relevance it has to the real world (as opposed to the world people believe they are living in).