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Monday, 29 October 2001
Just stick to reading the TelePrompTer, Frank.

Last night, an item on the Fox 13 news involved Michael Bolton, who was apparently in town to give a benefit concert for the victims of the September 11th attacks. Secily Wilson, the co-anchor who presented the story, concluded by mentioning that the proceeds from Bolton's benefit concerts "usually go to help needy women and children, but not this time."

"No, this time they found a really good cause," her co-anchor Frank Robertson said warmly, in an apparent attempt to appear caring and sympathetic.

The trouble with people whose primary job skill is to shut off their brains and read aloud the words scrolling in front of them is that they often seem unable to restart those brains when they decide to begin editorializing.

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