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anchorman (in broadcasting) a person in a central studio who links up and maintains contact with various outside camera units, reporters, etc. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Think of them as hybrids: Where once we had
political operatives like Lyn Nofzinger and Lee Atwater, anchormen like
Walter Cronkite, pundits like the Alsops, and comedians like Mort Sahl,
all tending to their plots in the garden, now we have political opundits
like Tony Snow and David Gergen, comedidits like Rush Limbaugh and
Steven Colbert and Al Franken, anchoredians like Keith Olbermann and Jon
Stewart. I was repeatedly asked by baffled
reporters, TV anchormen, and radio talk-show hosts questions like:
"Didn't the 1986 legislation fixed that? Although he skewers all the
likely suspects (the New York Times, network anchormen, congressional
Democrats, celebrity pundits), Lapham does not spare those intellectuals
satisfied with "the corrupting consolation of cynicism," who,
"finding themselves suffocated by a climate of opinion in which
dissent was disloyalty and disloyalty a crime . |
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