If you've never seen it, you might enjoy Blow Out, a 1981 thriller starring John Travolta as a sound engineer who, while collecting weird sounds, an actual hobby of theirs, collects the evidence of a murder.

>Speaking of names, why do the anchors pronounce the Egypt-based correspondent's name "Layla Fadel" while she pronounces her own name "Layla Faldin"? This irritates me no end!

It's a product of accent. Her last name is فضل‎ . The anchors are producing the Arabic letter ض as [d], whereas Leila herself is pronouncing it as the Lebanese do: [dˤ]. The pharyngealization of the voiced alveolar stop has an effect on the next letter, pulling it from the alveolar lateral approximant [l] to something closer to to the retroflex lateral approximant, [ɭ]. Because we don't have [ɭ] in English (or whatever language/s you speak), you hear what's closest to that, the alveolar nasal [n]. The same goes for the phantom [l] you hear before the d: pharyngealization changes your perception of those sounds.

Yeah, that I don't get. She always signs off "Fall.Den" but they always say "Faddle". But when it comes to most others, they over-pronounce foreign names --although they always mess up the "z" as either "s" or "z" instead of the actual "th" in Spanish surnames. But incomprehensibly, except for a couple of correspondents in country, they overwhelmingly don't come close with Chinese place names or personal names.