Whither Rather?

Patterico has a few notes about Dan Rather's potential future.

Read the piece. Money quote:

It is somewhat ironic that the current anchor generation--Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings--all came in at about the same time in the early 1980s, all young guys replacing iconic figures who had gotten old by the standards of the day. Whoever succeeds Rather, whenever he finally goes, will certainly not have anything approaching the agenda setting power that Rather inherited from Chronkite. Indeed, I will be mildly surprised if the networks continue to maintain nightly newscasts 10-15 years from now. The local affiliates could almost certainly make more money running syndicated programs or even expanding their own newscasts to 60 minutes.

Five or six years ago, people started pointing out that the era of network news was drawing to a close; some even predicted that one of the Big Three would tank in the upcoming decade.

We'll see...

Posted by Mitch at September 27, 2004 08:36 AM | TrackBack