CNN, MNSBC, BBC, Al-Jazeera Etc; What sort of "voice" do they have?

[CarlManvers2019]

Just want to ask you guys' opinion

Does anybody ever get the feeling that each of these guys, have a sort of "voice" that makes them sound all intellectual, "deep" and near melodramatic about ideals and hope with tears in their eyes?

Or is it just me? They don't exactly sound so casual when speaking the few times I watch these channels

 

[Isem]

TV presenters are generally trained to have a general tone, manner of speaking and accent as it were. It's intended to make them sound like you said. Though it can at times come apart like when say a fly goes into someone's mouth:

Like compare and contrast before or after. Even ignoring the swearing his entire manner of speaking changed.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

TV presenters are generally trained to have a general tone, manner of speaking and accent as it were. It's intended to make them sound like you said. Though it can at times come apart like when say a fly goes into someone's mouth:

Like compare and contrast before or after. Even ignoring the swearing his entire manner of speaking changed.

This guy still sounds way more ordinary compared to the newscasters I see on those channels

 

[Isem]

This guy still sounds way more ordinary compared to the newscasters I see on those channels

It gives you an idea of how presenters are generally trained to speak on TV in comparison to how they'd normally speak. In all likelihood the others are held to a different standard of how they're meant to speak.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It gives you an idea of how presenters are generally trained to speak on TV in comparison to how they'd normally speak. In all likelihood the others are held to a different standard of how they're meant to speak.

Yeah, but I keep getting a pseudo-cultured and sort of "I am amazed and poetic" in front of the world feel

 

[S'task]

TV presenters are generally trained to have a general tone, manner of speaking and accent as it were. It's intended to make them sound like you said.

Actually, it has nothing to do with trying to make them sound "intellectual". The General American English dialect was explicitly chosen by broadcasters in the mid 20th century to sound as "regionless" to most American speakers as possible, both out of a desire to not have the media favor any one region of the country particularly, but, more importantly, to maximize how understandable they were to the largest audience in the US. What this means in effect is that the accent loses any of the specific regional aspects which tend to make a person sound more "homey" and "average" and instead sound more clean and refined... because the accent IS specifically practiced and refined.

 

[Tiamat]

Actually, it has nothing to do with trying to make them sound "intellectual". The General American English dialect was explicitly chosen by broadcasters in the mid 20th century to sound as "regionless" to most American speakers as possible, both out of a desire to not have the media favor any one region of the country particularly, but, more importantly, to maximize how understandable they were to the largest audience in the US. What this means in effect is that the accent loses any of the specific regional aspects which tend to make a person sound more "homey" and "average" and instead sound more clean and refined... because the accent IS specifically practiced and refined.

It’s not too unlike how the mid-Atlantic accent came into existence during the 20th century and was often heard in early cinema of the time.

Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[S'task]

It’s not too unlike how the mid-Atlantic accent came into existence during the 20th century and was often heard in early cinema of the time.

Mid-Atlantic accent - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

The General American Accent is actually directly descended from the Mid-Atlantic Accent. It was purposefully modified from the MA to be be more inclusive of other regions of the US.