The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.