Contest: ENTER TV&M Avatar Contest: This Just In!

[Avro Arrow]

So in the United States this past week, two separate news networks fired one of their on-air personalities on the same day. This has indirectly inspired this week's contest, which is Fictional News People.

Your entry can be any image of fictional characters in the news industry: anchors, reporters, etc, for any kind of news source (television, newspaper, magazine, etc.) Your images can come from television, movies, comics or video games. For this contest, SF&F is allowed.

Standard avatar contest rules apply: your entry must be no larger than 200 x 200 pixels, 1 MB, and must also be SFW. Each entrant may enter up to three avatars. Contest will be open for about a week.

I will allow entries where a real-life news person is appearing in a work of fiction (for example, the real-life newscasters who appeared as themselves in Independence Day). Entries from real-life news programs will not be allowed.

I'll start us off with this one:

Bradley Jackson and Alex Levy, The Morning Show

Have fun!

 

[Vanyel]

J. Jonah Jameson (J. K. Simmons, who I think was born to play the part, like Patrick Stewart was born to play Professor X.)

Kent Brockman, The Simpsons

Weekend Update with Colin Jost and I can't remember the character he's interviewing.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#1

Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen & Perry White; DC Comics

 

[auntiehill]

Network

All the President's Men

 

[Timewalker]

Would a town crier be acceptable? They were like the newscasters before TV existed.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#2

Carl Kolchak; The NIght Stalker

 

[Avro Arrow]

Would a town crier be acceptable? They were like the newscasters before TV existed.

Sure, that's fine!

 

[Timewalker]

Okay, here's my entry. He's the town crier from the Rome TV series, and definitely a dynamic purveyor of the news:




As an aside, I was curious about whether this character was really someone who would have existed in the late Republic. Turns out, he was:

Spoiler: brief history lesson about Roman newsreaders

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[the G-man]

Muppet Show: Newsman

 

[Kai "the spy"]

#3

Sarah Jane Smith; Doctor Who / The Sarah Jane Adventures

 

[the G-man]

Ted Baxter, WJM News, the Mary Tyler Moore Show

 

[Avro Arrow]

Last call! I plan to post the poll roughly 48 hours or so from now, so sometime Tuesday night (for my time zone, anyway).

Here are my final two entries:

Murphy Brown and Jim Dial, Murphy Brown

Dan Vasser, Journeyman

(Fun fact: Dan was a reporter for the fictional newspaper San Francisco Register, which also appeared in some Star Trek time-travel stories, including The Voyage Home!)

 

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In local news, the avatar contest poll is up! Film at eleven.