In a column titled “From One Voice to Many, a New Golden Age of News,” Alessandra Stanley tries to demonstrate that different doesn’t mean worse when it comes to television. Her column is tied to tonight’s PBS special on Walter Cronkite. “Never again will there be an anchor like Walter Cronkite,” the NYT columnist begins. “And thank heaven for that.”
More: “However inured we have grown to anchors personalizing the news Edward R. Murrow-style — posturing on location and occasionally letting their emotions gush like Dan Rather or CNN’s Anderson Cooper — viewers expect anchors at least to feign objectivity. In today’s world, Mr. Cronkite’s Olympian pronouncements about war and peace seem inappropriate.” Read the rest…
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