KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP

If you are young enough to be seeking a career, or a new career -- in television, in the film industry, singing, politics, or in any form of public speaking, including teaching, the ministry, or law -- it might be good to look at people in these areas and study their upper lips. Watch your favorites in television announcing. Why are they your favorites? Chances are they do not move their upper lip every time they take a half-breath, but only when they smile and show you their good dental work. If they keep their upper lip under control, you will pay more attention to what they are telling you. 

I have watched reporters who are out in the field, some place away from their channel's headquarters, and I find good-enough reporting, but often a very busy upper lip. This seems to be more common in the female reporters than in the males. In fact, perhaps the men in those locations are not so guilty because they want their locations for personal reasons, such as the Florida sun. The women might have gone along with their husbands in their jobs. 

Sometimes I wonder how some male reporters earn their salaries, for we do not see them often reporting. However, they may be reporting to other sources as well -- legally, I mean -- or maybe also salaried as a lookout for criminal offenders for the law. And of course, they learn much more in investigating their stories than we ever hear on television. We lay people do not know what all is behind the finished pictures we see.