Anchors Extinct?
Roger L Simon thinks they all but are. I would like to see them go as well, but my sister in TV news has a good reason they won't go so fast: audiences bond to anchors. Not as anchors per se, but as that one person who they can really get to know. On Fox News, for example, that familiar face has a show of news talk, and the news readers are lessor figures on during breaks. But its probabaly true that a successful post-anchor world needs to find someone to be the face of the channel, at least for regular periods of time. In an update, Simon describes Brit Hume as a moderator, and that very well could be an excellent post anchor kind of role, the trusted person who interviews his own journalists (or split screen panel) about the news.
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