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Americans can’t stand an ugly mug

In newsrooms.  Anchors and reporters must

Be gorgeous, male and female, beauty smug

In telegenic strength.  The viewers’ lust

Is catered to, first consideration

There being handsomeness, fun loveliness,

Not uglinesses . . . abomination

To eyes.  The ban is on unloveliness.

The contrast elsewhere, at the BBC,

For instance, is so shocking that we laugh

Out loud.  The contrast with the ABC

Shows Brits scrape barrels full of charmless chaff.

  What’s going on?  Is Britain looking out

    For talent, not for lips with pretty pout?

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