FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2006
National Journal
William Powers lists five reasons why anchor elections make sense. Here's one: "Elections will solve one of the great mysteries of civilization: What makes an anchor popular? [
Bob] Schieffer's success has produced confusion about what qualities we-the-people want in our anchors. Do we prefer the gray paterfamilias figure that he epitomizes, or the younger 'glam' anchor typified by
Anderson Cooper and
Katie Couric? It's a momentous question that can be answered only by a national vote."
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