Better than Brokaw? The reason I ask, is everyone both here and at DU is suddenlty talking about what a great reporter he was. I ask, because I really don't know. If you were to ask me the difference in the quality of reporting between Jennings and Brokaw, or Bernard Shaw, I couldn't tell you.
It seems to me they are all just guys who read the teleprompter.
With Tom Brokaw, I will never forget the way he & others slanted their news reporting in Lebanon, favouring Arafat's gang of thugs when Israel expelled the PLO leadership in 1982.
Again, you do no get to be an anchor by having a pretty face.
You first have to prove yourself as a reporter, which he did. Also, anchor, he wrote his own show scripts and went into the field to report on things as well.
They do not just read the prompter. In breaking news, you can't do that anyway.