Tiffany Cross

[Opbrg]

Is it just me or does anyone else find her voice very irritating? I like her but her voice grates on my nerves.

[csziggy]

1. Same here - her journalism is good, but some Saturdays I just cannot handle the voice

Which is a shame since she has great guests and good messaging.

I try to tell myself that I'm not watching to hear a soothing voice, but...

[Dem4Life1102]

2. No

[grantcart]

3. My housemate agrees

[uponit7771]

4. Second LPC OP with Tiffany Cross hate and recs from LPC also, I smell rodent sex

Cross must be hitting some nerves, I'll be looking for this posting pattern for now on

and no

Her voice is no more irritating than anyone other women on cable news, I wonder why she's being extrapolated ?!

[hlthe2b]

18. As one who had to (chose to) take vocal coaching lessons to make my own voice more palatable for

public speaking, I note a lot of what makes my own voice problematic (and it is to me, too) in how she speaks. Some people are more in tune with those aspects of voice/sound. My coach was truly an expert in the tone, tenor, and inflections that can be modified so that (in my case) the audience is listening to your message and not cringing at or trying to analyze your overall voice, accent, or quality of voice.

It really is an issue and I say that not to promote "rodent sex" (not sure at all what that means) or unduly criticize her or anyone else, but to suggest that she and several others on tv programs really could make themselves more effective with some voice work.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. I am also annoyed by this person

[sciencescience]

6. no

[rogue emissary]

7. Nope.

Never had a problem with her voice.

[Vinca]

8. That's almost exactly what I said to my husband this morning. I can't watch her.

[jrthin]

9. No, it's not just you. Although I want to watch, I cannot

because her voice, to me, is like finger nails scratching a chalkboard.

[helpisontheway]

10. Very irritating. My husband left the room this morning because of her high pitched voice.

She needs a voice coach or something..

[Bev54]

11. Yes, I stopped watching because of her voice

[Wounded Bear]

12. Yeah, same here. I try to turn the volume down, but it doesn't help much...nt

[FakeNoose]

13. Unfortunately, many women do have this problem

(I'm a woman so I can say this): When speaking with emotion or anger, our female voices tend to get on the screechy side. It takes special training to avoid that screechy tone, and most tv journalists do learn it in school. A few men have the same problem, however those men aren't professional speakers so it doesn't get noticed as much.

A good example is Rachel Maddow, she has trained herself to speak in such a way as to avoid that annoying tone that hurts one's ears. Rachel keeps her voice in the lower register (I mean pitch, not volume) with a calm non-screechy tone. And yet as good as she is, it's still hard to listen to her for a solid hour.

[The Blue Flower]

14. I like her and I tried, but I can't

Her voice grates on me.

[FloridaBlues]

15. Same here. Maybe a vocal coach would help.

[Polly Hennessey]

16. Her voice is irritating.

I tried to watch this morning but only lasted two minutes. Making it worse for me is the scratchy cadence that goes along with it. Nothing sexist about it. It hurts my ears. Why should I listen to someone whose voice is unpleasant. I don’t care if they are female, male, young, old, black, white, fat, skinny, frogs, birds, coyotes, owls, etc., etc. Stop putting labels on everything. Sometimes things are just annoying.

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Her voice is grating and very sharp to the point it hurts my ears.

I can take her in small bits, but now that she has her own show, it's too much, too long. That was, in fact, my first thought when I saw her name as a header.

I once made the same comment about Neera Tanden, long before she was Biden's nominee for OMB, and got hammered here on DU because of it. Her voice has the same caustic quality as Cross (to my ears, at least).

Truly, i think some of us are simply more susceptible to high pitched voice and cadence. I'm not debating the material, just the presentation.