Much is being made of the promotion of Diane Sawyer to the ABC anchor chair, along with Katie Couric at NBC earlier (and Barbara Walters won't let you forget that she was the first). We now have two female anchors of the major broadcast network news shows.
I have a lot of respect for each of the women individually and I honor their personal achievements.
But I think its interesting that women are 'allowed' in the anchor chair in the years when the network news is becoming more irrelevant anyway. The corporate power structure isn't making money in network news based on integrity and good journalism anymore so, to them, there's less at stake and they can 'take a chance' on having a woman in the anchor chair.
That's a pretty cynical view, but I think its true.
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