Today’s appointment of Russ Mitchell to the CBS Sunday anchor job makes him “the first African American anchor of one of the broadcast networks’ prime-time news programs since ABC forced Carole Simpson out of the weekend anchor spot in 2003,” Richard Prince writes.
Eric Deggans says “CBS is continuing network TV’s time-honored tradition of parking promising anchors of color on the weekend shift…”
> Also: An e-mailer says: “I watched him sub for Schieffer last week and was blown away at how talented he is. If CBS were smart, it’d hang on to Schieffer for a couple years and groom Mitchell in much the same way Tom Brokaw groomed Brian Williams.”
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