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anchorman
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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.


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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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