Retiring Dan Rather
As the paper this morning said, it will be 24 years since Walter Cronkite stepped down from the Achor char at CBS. I remember that day. I was quite young at the time, but I still liked Cronkite. The new guy proved himself, but never really won the affection Cronkite did. And sadly, it never really got a lot better then that.
The true low point for me was the 2000 presidential elections. As the wait for Florida grew into the night, Dan Rather got more and more southern, and weirder and weirder with his analogies. That was more of the stick that broke the camel's back. My parents had stopped watching Dan for some time and had turned to ABC.
The broadcast news networks do have some problems ahead of them, as anyone who has watched the half-hour newscast can tell you. Just looking at the ads in those newscasts tells you who their expected demographic is, the over 50 set. While that'll be good for another decade or two, it probably won't pay the bills for much longer. The future of News is already in flux thanks to my own generation's penchant for getting news online (and ironically enough, largely in text form).
The true low point for me was the 2000 presidential elections. As the wait for Florida grew into the night, Dan Rather got more and more southern, and weirder and weirder with his analogies. That was more of the stick that broke the camel's back. My parents had stopped watching Dan for some time and had turned to ABC.
The broadcast news networks do have some problems ahead of them, as anyone who has watched the half-hour newscast can tell you. Just looking at the ads in those newscasts tells you who their expected demographic is, the over 50 set. While that'll be good for another decade or two, it probably won't pay the bills for much longer. The future of News is already in flux thanks to my own generation's penchant for getting news online (and ironically enough, largely in text form).
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