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Article: Anchors overboard? TV newscasts still need trusted, experienced journalists at the helm.(BROADCAST VIEWS)
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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And then there were none. That's how it felt when ABC's Peter Jennings revealed in April that he has lung cancer. Despite his desire to keep working while undergoing treatment, Jennings' illness means that for the first time in more than 20 years he won't be a nightly fixture on the network news. His absence, following the departures of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, suggests that we've come to the end of an era and the age of the anchor is finally over.
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Don't you believe it.
As eras go, this one is still young. The term "anchor" was used for the first time in a TV sense in 1952, when CBS producers likened coverage of that ...