Hey...Wait a minute...There are MORE than FIVE "news personalities" that work at foxnews!!!!!!!

Katie Couric just rubs me the wrong way - that scratchy voice, the pretend-to-be-compassionate that just doesn't come across. I'm sure a lot of people find ME annoying, but no one is paying me millions to have my ugly mug piped into millions of homes' T.V. sets each day. Do the networks know this ? I can't be the only one - I won't tune in just because of her - I'd rather watch a pimply-faced 15-year old do the stories.

You're RIGHT. Rita Cosby's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard. Hiring her is like hiring someone with a lisp...only worse. I cannot stand to listen to her, and now her ghouishness with "witnessing the execution" of Tookie Williams is too much. Get her OFF THE AIR!!

Pretty good call. Rita and Nancy are a good reason to use the mute button. Geraldo is joke, Anderson just gives me the creeps and Ann can't even read the prompter well. (I think there's something seriously wrong with her) None of these people should even qualify as "news" personalities. Seems like the real news folks are either dying off, retiring or looking for jobs. I can't believe CNN could let Aaron Brown get away in favor of Cooper. Seems like a real decline in real news on the news channels of late. There's plenty of crap channels for the likes of the 5 you mentioned. Let's demand that we get real news people reporting the news!

Rick Sanchez..The Pompousness King

Nancy Grace may be #2 in your book but that woman knows what she is talking about. EG - Peterson - she got that right from the get-go. Out for herself? No - you obviously did not see the real Nancy with Dan Horowitz and how she covered that tragic incident. Annoying yes - but knowledgeable and informed...YES! I agree with #1 though - Rita Cosby's voice makes me turn off my tv.

Nancy Grace may be #2 in your book but that woman knows what she is talking about. EG - Peterson - she got that right from the get-go. Out for herself? No - you obviously did not see the real Nancy with Dan Horowitz and how she covered that tragic incident. Annoying yes - but knowledgeable and informed...YES! I agree with #1 though - Rita Cosby's voice makes me turn off my tv.

This is what happens when the marketers, more concerned with advertising than with content, take over television news -- programs designed for the mindset of old people overly fearful about crime (thanks to distortions from local TV newscasts) and shopgirls more concerned with gossip than genuine news. I increasingly sense that Anderson Cooper got his job more because Gloria Vanderbilt is his mom (not to mention the help he must have from the Yalie alumni network) than for any genuine talent. Rivera's been a joke since the late seventies, Nancy Grace is a shrew and Rita Cosby...well, I can't think of any words to best describe her. Ann Curry has become a parody of herself, as lately has become the case for many TV newswomen. (To her credit, Paula Zahn tries to stand above it all and usually focuses on hard news. But since there's a double standard for men and women and she's approaching 50, poor Paula will probably be next to go, as some CNN honchos are probably more concerned with her legs than her news ability.)

Why are the cable channels intent on finding women with grating, whining, nasal, annoying (you pick one!) voices? Pick one of those listed here, from Van Susteren to Nancy Grace, and you'll find a desperate need for vocal training. Or a significant reason to encourage another career. I agree with the comment about the men on Fox and Friends, however. They're so intent on being jovial that they sometimes forget we tune in for information!

Thank you for dinging Rita Cosby (any realtion to Norm??No, wait, that's Crosby) possibly one of the most unwatchable, unlistenable personalities in the history of the medium. If she asks one more suffering person "how much are you suffering?" I may lose my lunch. Her attempts to milk pathos and bathos from these poor folks is exploitation of the worst sort. There ought to be a steel-cage death match between her and Dr. Phil, where the winner gets euthanized.