“The Real Endangered Species Is The Credible, Middle-Aged Male Anchor”

Monday’s Boston Globe reports: “After dominating TV news for decades, male anchors are now in the minority nationwide, according to a study by the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Ball State University.”

“If you dress up the average woman coming out of college and put on makeup, she looks like an adult. The average man coming out of college looks like he’s going through puberty,” said Bob Papper, a professor of telecommunications at Ball State in Muncie, Ind., and the director of the RTNDA’s annual study on television news.

“Sure, he’ll get a job in a smaller market, but it will take longer for him to move forward, even if he puts on phony glasses. A lot of young men aren’t staying in the business that long. I think the real endangered species is the credible, middle-aged male anchor.”

> Media Orchid: “Ron Burgundy was right to worry, apparently.”