Why British accents in US NEws

[Laurence Horn]

Cute, but apparently fabricated three years ago (the Weekly World News isn't the most reliable source of research studies?  who knew?); no such study or professor (Comito) seems to exist outside of this "article".  I was suspicious when I saw New Jersey accents rated as sexier than British ones.  As far as the other article goes, that seems to be a real (four year old) study by real researchers, involving *foreign* ("mild or heavy Asian, European, or Middle Eastern") accents, not British ones.  But maybe you were putting us on.

LH

On Feb 23, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:

> Apparently British accents are not sexy,  http://bit.ly/1bXUAiw  and any foreign accent is judged less trustworthy http://bit.ly/1fsffdp,  So why do we hear more British newscaster lately on US TV News?  For less trustworthy news with less sex appeal?
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