ps on more beaches and wetlands, missing child, celebrity mishap, weather disaster, events from all over the world ...It's delivered to us by familiar reporters. Between commercials, nice-looking, youngish people we've seen before, give us their view of what's going on.
Actually, I don't have a relationship with the person who is conveying the latest new threat or troublesome issue -- I just take in what's being said -- be it about politics, human suffering, or who won the big game -- and wait for a revelation on yesterday's headlines.
Right now, I think it would help if we had an older-wiser, experienced anchor on the nightly news, discussing the oil spill, BP, and Iran, Israel and Gaza -- someone we know we can trust, like Dan Rather.
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I have never liked Dan Rather. I don't know what it is, but there's something about him that really bugs me. But I do love and miss the serious anchormen from my youth: John Chancellor and of course Walter Cronkite.
I grew up with Tom Brokaw, and I do miss hearing the news from him. I think familiarity and trust with an objective journalist is something that is sorely missing from current media. Opinions are great too, but I want facts without spin or bias! (So I check out both Drudge & Huffington and try to find the middle ground).
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