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Re:Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman by the_snooze on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:34AM (#37598216)
>I wish we could get more Cronkite style anchors, who prided themselves on delivering information to the public in an unemotional and straightforward manner. Instead we get emotionally charged news anchors who are trying to incite the strongest reactions they can get.

A level-headed Cronkite-like figure would work well in an environment where "the media" knows to get out of the way when there isn't any urgent news to report (e.g., a 9/11-style emergency). But that doesn't make advertisers or shareholders happy, so we're stuck in a ratchet-up environment where EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT ALL THE TIME SO KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING KEEP WATCHING!!!

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Re:Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman by jfengel on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:05PM (#37599685)
Precisely. Cronkite did one thirty-minute show per day, and he himself was only on for part of it.

It's not difficult to acquire the ten minutes worth of actual news per day. If you're consuming more than that, the problem isn't with the anchor. It's that you want to be entertained rather than informed.

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