Posted on 11/30/2004 6:43:05 PM PST by jdm
Didn't this fail miserably once with Danny boy and Connie Chung? It was right before they briefly had Dan standing up for the newscast, which failed miserably, likewise.
My vote...Franken and Clift. Has a nice ring to it. Rolls off the tongue easy...Frankenclift.
Yep, Dan Rather and Connie Chung were co-anchors for a short time, it was miserable. Every body have fun tonight, everybody Whang Chung tonight....:)
I don't know, those DNC faxes, from Kinkos, can be pretty suspect.
A second thought. How about bringing back Edward Morrow. According to Rather, Morrow is still around.
FGS
I, for one am glad to see this. It seems like such an obvious opportunity to come up with something new and different. I thought Viacom might rise to the challenge. There must be lots of ideas floating around.
Text readers, not prima donnas, sounds good to me. (:>)
It makes sense to me to have more than one talking head on the nat'l news. All of the local newscasts everywhere have more than one and usually three.
When I first moved here there was one white man who was the local anchor. Then with the minorities screaming about no minority newscasters they hired, over the years, a black, a female, an Hispanic, etc.....until now the head local anchor is a black female with an Hispanic male and the lone white guy who is still with the station is the token white guy.
As I see it, Viacom's challenge is a lot larger than putting a real live newshound in the anchor chair if they really want to make some changes at cbs news. Their whole operation revolves around embedded libthink types. From the top down apparently. There would have to be a massive restructuring and pink slips wholesale for them to actually change direction.
Now, there may still be some synapse(s) firing within Viacom management, but institutional "buckwheats" will preclude them taking any substantive action. More of the same is the easy way out for them, and I'm willing to bet they take the easy way out. I hope I dead wrong.
FGS
I'm surprised this article didn't mention the triple anchor format which had Frank Reynolds and Max Robinson and Peter Jennings in the early 80s. Reynolds died of cancer in 83 and Robinson had a drinking problem so that is how Jennings became the anchor for his second go round at ABC.
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