One of the world’s best news anchors finally had the honour of having a school named after him
Ron Burgundy and his moustache are the best newsteam that the world has ever seen (we’re fairly sure) and his pivotal place in the history of anchorman-ing was recognised by the Emerson University communications school earlier this week when it was renamed in his honour.
Emerson, which is based in Boston, even had the great man appear for a Q&A session with a panel of aspiring journalists at the newly named Ron Burgundy School of Communication. According to The Global Post, he handed out some invaluable advice to the assembled crowd about how they should gargle with bath water to lower their voice a few octaves, and that there isn’t enough facial hair in the news today.
Pic via The Global Post
He also encouraged all those present to wear more cologne and perfume, and said they need to “Always get the facts, unless it’s too hard.” Perhaps his most valuable nugget of wisdom was that they should always keep a $20 bill in their shows “in case you end up in a Peruvian jail.”
Pic via The Global Post
However, the bad news is that it was for one day only, as President M. Lee Pelton pointed out, but it was a great bit of PR both for Ferrell’s latest movie Anchorman 2, which hits screens later this month, and for Emerson University, which proved that it understands new media and is not afraid to poke a bit of fun at itself. We’d certainly have gone to more lectures if they were in the Brick Tamland Hall at the Ron Burgundy School of Communication.
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