Judith Goldberger asks:
How come he’s an anchorman and she’s an anchor? Surely they’re all the same bunch of anchors?
Anyone?
Leading anchorman Aengus Mac Grianna to leave RTE after 30 years (independent)
Legendary anchor Una O’Hagan announces she’s leaving RTE News (Independent)
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Anchors away
Headline opportunity missed there, Broadsheet.
There’s many questions this prompts…
All I see is llamas, sizeable pensions and Google searches of yer wan.
Irish Independent’s copy is hardly knicker-twisting.
Bunch of anchors, nice one.
Surely a shower.
Oh yeah, let’s debate this one.
I’ll miss Una, she’s great.
I think this answers the question https://youtu.be/TLeqqrzG7Lw
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve just been triggered
ok i’ll bite for whoever wants to have a go ..
it’s because she’s not a man.
How very dare you!
She sounds sound…
Isn’t anchor a very American term to be using in the first place?
The answer is probably that “anchorwoman” sounds silly and patronizing so they didn’t use it and “anchorman” doesn’t so they didn’t see a problem using the term.
Stop it you, showing up the contributors lack of common sense!
Because it’s anchor MAN, not anchor LADY.
i love Una. I’ll miss her