Frank Rich: Why Has the Anchorman Institution Endured?

New York: “The institution of the network anchor persists even as such perennial eulogies are written for it, even as the broadcast networks give way to the individualized narrow­casting of social networks,” writes Frank Rich. “As Andrew Heyward, the former president of CBS News, describes the atavistic absurdity of the franchise, the very concept that an anchor could ‘organize the world in a coherent way,’ putting the world ‘literally’ in a box for half an hour, is now a non sequitur.”