Media

November, 1990

Blame uncle walter. He's the man who turned being an anchor into being an icon. In fact, he literally became the first news anchor, back in 1952, when CBS, grasping for a term to describe Walter Cronkite's role covering the political conventions, went for a nautical metaphor and it stuck. Even with the fancy new title, Cronkite was just a guy in a tie who read the news five nights a week and ad-libbed without embarrassing anyone during election nights and space shots.Then something happened. May...