One minute, he claims to be a typical robust male who loves his steak and beer, and yet he also has claims to be a sci-fi geek who is a member of the Battlestar Galactica fanclub (the new one, not the old one). Also, he has conflicting personality traits. Butterfat's 5600 Flavors Ice Cream Parlor, was one of their sponsors, and he implies he was actually intending to do the Iraq debate and wasn't happy at this development). On a related note, he tends to devote some of his news reports to stuff that are more trivial than truly newsworthy, such as dedicating an entire night to the assassination of a squirrel resembling Abe Lincoln over covering a boy trapped in a well, as well as interviewing Homer winning his 1,000,000th ice cream cone on Smartline over a debate over the Iraq War (although in the latter case, that wasn't actually Kent's fault, as the studio forced him to do the interview since the ice cream store in question Phineas Q. This eventually came to a head when he was exposed of not only lying about serving in Iraq under the 98th Airborne Squadron, but indeed that he had lied throughout his entire news career, which resulted in his firing as well as most of Springfield avoiding him due to losing trust in him to the extent of being visibly sickened by his presence. Largely due to his very loose ethical standards, he also had no qualms with lying about stories he was involved in. As with most Simpsons characters, Brockman's ethics and competence vary according to the needs of the episode. He has an ongoing feud with traffic reporter Arnie Pye, and has been shown to criticize Pye's reporting and also even chuckles when it was thought Pye had died in a helicopter accident.Kent Brockman represents the worst of his profession: frequently judgmental careerist to the point of absurdity and more than willing to film and sensationalize a schmaltzy, emotion driven puff piece for the sake of a few extra ratings points. However, he remained a news anchor because he was under contract, though he also admitted that he likes making $500,000 a year. In "Dog of Death", Brockman won the multimillion-dollar ($130 million) state lottery jackpot and left the news desk while still on the air. In "Kamp Krusty", Brockman is revealed to have during his career, reported on the Vietnam War, the 1979-89 Soviet–Afghan War, and the 1991 Gulf War. Brockman has a daughter, Brittany, who may have been the product of his fling with the Channel 6 weather girl. As seen in a flashback to the 1960s in the episode "Mother Simpson", Brockman was known as Kenny Brockelstein early in his career. ![]() Kent Brockman hosts the Channel 6 weekday news, as well as Smartline, a local current-affairs program (a parody of the national current-affairs program Nightline), Bite Back! With Kent Brockman (a parody of Fight Back! With David Horowitz), Eye on Springfield (a parody of Eye on LA), which focuses mostly on Springfield's entertainment news, the game show Springfield Squares, and has his own personal commentary segment of the six PM news, "My Two Cents". He is a grumpy, self-centered local Springfield news anchor. He is voiced by Harry Shearer and first appeared in the episode "Krusty Gets Busted". ![]() ![]() ![]() Kent Brockman is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons.
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