Nothing Good about the Good Old Days
Submitted by Hunter Thompson on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 8:13pm.

I too am a veteran broadcaster and I'm here to tell you that the Good Old Days, as referred to by some of the more crusty commenters on this issue, were anything but good. Even back in the 50s and early 60s, before we knew smoking caused cancer, how can anyone possibly think that watching Edward R. Murrow sucking down one camel after another as he queried his guests could be a good thing?

I worked a newscast where the anchor/News Director not only read the news, but read the commercials (mostly for a local Savings and Loan) and then dipped his head and went back to the news reading. How many stories about that S&L, or about banks in general, did that News Department produce? Few, if any.

That said, given the Infotainment nature of current News broadcasts, there is probably no reason at all why the anchors shouldn't be wearing Ray-Bans and drinking Evian on set.

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