A way out of Iraq

[Undertoad]

I always thought of Robin Quivers as the woman who was basically an incompetent DJ, who was fired from the Harrisburg station I grew up with when she fell asleep at the job and left listeners with a long session of popping vinyl track of dead air. But that's just me, remembering a better time when DJs actually required talent, running equipment and making actual real-time content decisions.

T, the secret to local news is that it is aimed at an IQ of about 90, in order to draw the largest possible audience. Now that the middle class is fully wired for cable, they may be aiming even lower with the local station news.

But Ms. Thomas-Laury, as a proven talent in a major market, probably brings in about $250,000 a year. Mr. Howard, as a newly-hired-away major anchor, probably brings in $500K. At that level they are expected to know how to pronounce "Azerbaijan" but they don't need to know where it is.