Can TV anchors be obese?

It’s been decades since Christine Craft first raised the issue of whether female TV anchors and reporters could be allowed to get old.

Now, a La Crosse, Wisconsin TV anchor is raising the stakes: Can they be allowed to be fat?

Jim Romenesko carries the story today of Jennifer Livingston, who got a letter from one of her viewers at WKBT in the city:

Sure you don’t consider yourself a suitable example for this community’s young people, girls in particular. Obesity is one of the worst choices a person can make and one of the most dangerous habits to maintain. I leave you this note hoping that you’ll reconsider your responsibility as a local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle.

She made a lot of fans by talking about it…

Comments on the state’s Facebook page are fairly unanimously.

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In other news: She tells pretty interesting stories…