{"id":915,"date":"2004-12-01T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/12\/anchor_away_celebritystyle\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T18:39:29","slug":"anchor_away_celebritystyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/12\/anchor_away_celebritystyle.html","title":{"rendered":"ANCHOR AWAY, CELEBRITY-STYLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe I was over-turkified. Still can’t get a grip. Must be the tryptophan, or possibly the halo
\neffect of Tom Brokaw’s protracted departure<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. His
\ncelebrity-style leave-taking as NBC News anchor, so long-winded and self-important, has been
\nmilked to a fare-thee-well<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. The fact that he has gone along
\nwith it or worse, encouraged it, would make any right-minded citizen puke.<\/P>
\n

Postscript:<\/B> Asked about replacing Dan Rather, who departs as CBS news anchor in
\nMarch, network overseer Leslie Moonves said yesterday: “We may bring in the cast of ‘Friends’ to
\ndo the evening news. … Anything’s possible.” It was, uhm, a joke<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}