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The media, and particularly the reporters and presenters on Tv must have been sent to a school which

, to its shame, teaches them to show their upper front teeth, no doubt painted white by the make-up person,  when speaking to the camera. No doubt it is done in an attempt to make the person's appearance more appealing.

It is typical media thinking.  There is no consideration of the unfortunate side effects. The poor wretches, labouring under an ugly form of the Australian accent are further burdened by having it made highly nasal, sometimes to the point when it cannot be understood, even with hearing aids, by those with some hearing impairment.  It comes across like the quackiing of a duck at an elocution lesson. It is a great relief to hear one who uses his/her mouth to speak without distortion from the nasal passage.

Please, give us what we can hear.  Looks are only secondary when the news and other communications are the ppoint