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December 01, 2004
ANCHOR AWAY, CELEBRITY-STYLE
Maybe I was over-turkified. Still can't get a grip. Must be the tryptophan, or possibly the halo effect of Tom Brokaw's protracted departure. His celebrity-style leave-taking as NBC News anchor, so long-winded and self-important, has been milked to a fare-thee-well. The fact that he has gone along with it or worse, encouraged it, would make any right-minded citizen puke.
Postscript: Asked about replacing Dan Rather, who departs as CBS news anchor in March, network overseer Leslie Moonves said yesterday: "We may bring in the cast of 'Friends' to do the evening news. ... Anything's possible." It was, uhm, a joke.
Posted by at December 1, 2004 10:39 AM
