If we've got to hear bad news, we'd prefer to hear it from Cynthia Newsome. She has the ideal broadcast voice. It's smooth and soothing yet serious and assertive. This is news, after all. Newsome seems to know we don't need our information all hyped up with the contrived, urgent tone consultants tell anchors to use. It's as if they think we're all distracted teen-agers. But Newsome treats us like adults. She just tells it like it is.
