A hair dryer blows the cream topping sideways from a small golden cake on a stand against cobalt blue.

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Linda Ellerbee

We call them twinkies. You’ve seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they’ve read the news — or if they’ve blown dried their brains, too.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a scathing jab at glossy presenters. The speaker nicknames them twinkies, then plays with words: they act the news, model it, fracture it. The closing gag asks whether they read what they deliver, or whether their brains got styled like their hair.

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