Time for Rather to go?

[Mark Laurence]

On Nov 4, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Laurence Glavin wrote:

> The question now may be:  is it time to replace the old model of the
> broadcast network anchor (dictionary definition..."dead weight")
> with the B.B.C. model of the news reader?

That's the way I think they should go.  The days of the star anchor are 
waning.  It has already happened at the local level, and the network 
stars are largely left over from an era when far more people watched 
broadcast coverage of every major event.  Now the real stars are the 
pundits.  CBS/Viacom's best-known news personality of the next 
generation is Comedy Central's Jon Stewart.