2. During the 1939-45 war, the Yorkshire broadcaster Wilfred Pickles was employed to read the news in his Halifax accent, but the attempt to use his popularity as an entertainer to make the news more homely completely failed. There were many complaints. People ‘couldn’t believe the news’ if it was read in a regional dialectal accent (Hudson, 1988).
How might this affect your response to listening to the news on TV or radio in Thailand? If the news were to be ready by an announcer with a region dialect, would it be taken seriously?