Izaguirre’s Plummeting Street Cred

Reporting DART’s closure of its Akard Street station on the noon news today, Belo8 anchor Cynthia Izaguirre pronounced the street “AY-kurd” (as in acorn) instead of ACK-urd, not once but twice. Nit-picking? Heck, yes. But the thing is, we probably wouldn’t have even noticed if not for all those annoying commercials pumping Izaguirre that assure us, ad nauseum, that “she grew up here … she’s just returning to work in the town she loves … and, oh yeah, did we mention she grew up here?” Wasn’t a ‘burb babe, either.