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How the Era of the Big-Name News Anchor Crashed to an End
The Daily Beast ^
| 12.27.17 5:00 AM ET
| LLOYD GROVE
Posted on 12/27/2017 6:03:08 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
O’Reilly a news anchor?? Not true while he was on Fox.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:04:47 AM PST
by
pfflier
To: E. Pluribus Unum
These days its Jeff Glor and David Muir. Spare me.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:06:10 AM PST
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
To: Lisbon1940
I miss Huntley-Brinkley...
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:07:17 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Then there was this person:
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:10:05 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: OttawaFreeper
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:11:04 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I always marveled how anchors could stretch their tenures, years into decades (like an east-bloc premier), as if it made their lies any more palatable. Popular shows would come and go, but Cronkite, Reasoner, Brinkley, Brokaw, Rather, Jennings, and McNeil-Lehrer would just drone on and on, night after night.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:12:38 AM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Huntley was a great newsman. Brinkley, not so much. Plus, he talked out of the side of his mouth.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:12:59 AM PST
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I miss Huntley-Brinkley...
I always wondered why a homely guy like David Brinkley could have such a gorgeous daughter. His wife must have really been something!
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:14:29 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: BradyLS
If you’re like me, and if you’re posting here you probably are, the mere idea of being told what to think is risible. Being comfortable with, even eager, to be told what to think is even more risible.
Yet millions of Americans now and over the decades were quite content to have newsreaders (for that’s all they were) assume an air of authority, even moral rectitude. To this day 20/20 and 60 Minutes are still popular with people who should know better.
To: BradyLS
If you’re like me, and if you’re posting here you probably are, the mere idea of being told what to think is risible. Being comfortable with, even eager, to be told what to think is even more risible.
Yet millions of Americans now and over the decades were quite content to have newsreaders (for that’s all they were) assume an air of authority, even moral rectitude. To this day 20/20 and 60 Minutes are still popular with people who should know better.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:17:55 AM PST
by
Thibodeaux
(2018 is looking good)
To: Dr. Sivana
David Brinkley had no daughters, just 2 sons.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:22:37 AM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Don’t suppose weather girls in bikinis are on the horizon.
Sigh.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:23:54 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Frankly, I am looking forward to the news robot.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:26:11 AM PST
by
ptsal
( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
To: BradyLS
Twentieth century America had a long tradition of relying on highly trusted news casters to keep them informed, beginning with radio demigods like Edward R Morrow, William Shirer, John Cameron Swayze. That carried over into the TV era with the invention of the onscreen anchor. No one suspected them of being dishonest demagogs.
To: Lisbon1940
I don’t think Brinkley graduated high school.
He wrote a couple of books, tho...
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:37:22 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: central_va
The photo is of Ted Baxter (played by Ted Knight) on the Mary Tyler Moore show. I meant my post to be for a laugh, concerning news anchors.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:38:55 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: hinckley buzzard
Dishonest demogogues, yes, and in the case of Cronkite a closet Communist throughout his career. Cronkite only admitted it after he retired and during an interview on the old CNN Larry King show.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:39:50 AM PST
by
Avalon Memories
(The question about.out fighting back is not what average people can to do, but how to do we do it?)
To: P.O.E.
“Dont suppose weather girls in bikinis are on the horizon.”
Funny story. My buddy was watching the spanish weather channel one night in his den. The weather babe was well endowed, and dressed to highlight the fact.
His wife came into the room, watched for a few seconds, then muted the TV and stood in front of the screen.
She asked “What’s the weather going to be this week?”
He had no idea.
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posted on
12/27/2017 6:55:09 AM PST
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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