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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4255664, member: 289"]
When I was growing up, Walter Cronkite defined the term 'anchorman'. He'd started his career in journalism during the depression, made a name for himself covering World War II and spent a dozen years at CBS covering every conceivable story before being named the anchor of the CBS Evening News at age 45 in 1962, a job he held for the next 19 years.

I was impressed when two men with local roots: David Muir and Jeff Glor became anchors, respectively of the ABC World News in 2014 and the CBS Evening News in 2017. But they seemed a little "wet behind the ears" to me for those very weighty jobs. As recently as 2000 I could watch David do the weekend local news for Channel 5 in Syracuse, (the CBS affiliate), and watch Jeff co-host Channell 3's, (the NBC affiliate), morning program. Now they were Walter Cronkite?

But in 2017 David was 44, having covered Hurricane Katrina, the Israeli-Hezbollah War, Chernobyl, the BP Oil spill, the Haiti hurricane and earthquake, Fukushima, Somolia, the Arab Spring and the 2012 presidential campaign. And Jeff was 42 and had covered the 2008 presidential campaign, the Iraq War, events in China, the Paris Accords, and had been CBS's national correspondent.

In other words, they had become what Walter Cronkite was in 1962. They were not what was different. I was. I was no longer a teenager, watching a middle-aged man deliver the news. I was watching two men a generation younger than me deliver the news.
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