Anderson 360? Wolf Blitzer Reports? WTF is with

[praetorian_uber]

CNN pimping celebrity news casters? Do you think newscasters should spend a little more times with scripts, and less time with blow dryers?Do celebrity news casters add to the news watching experience, or detract from it?Good thought provoking answers...I don't know about eye candy, I just want the relevant news, I could care less about how Anderson Cooper the celeb news personality wants to interpret news events...Even with Walter Cronkite, he wasn't on the "Walter Cronkite Show", he was the anchor on the CBS Evening News...

[DutchApplePie]

Good question, some say that it is the dumbing down of America. Others say it helps bring people back to watchng the news. Things have changed since television and the news. You have to understand that humans like to see things that are pleasing to the eye. Some feel that Anderson is some new eyecandy and Wolf is eyecandy for older women and has a look of trust for older men. People in their teens - 20s do not watch the news. So the companies such as CNN and Fox go for what their viewers want to see. The problem with the 24/7 news is people find it overal depressing, they feel blogged down by it. They want the news but they want a break, what better way that with some person that took an hour in make-up chair and 10 minutes reading some piece of paper.

[g_little]

anderson cooper is pimping? I think for ratings

[Wolf]

*Shrugging my furry shoulders* This is nothing new, Walter Crokite (as an example) was the same sort way back in the 60's into the 80's.Nor is CNN the only one to do it, FOX is far worse, they have The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes. Heck they even have Geraldo. Cannot get much worse than that. CNBC has their own set of celebrity newscasters.Far as newscasts go (barring the fact Wolf Blitzer and I share the same name) Anderson is ok, Wolf I rather like as he tackles a lot of provocative topics, tells the news straight up and his interviews are very well done, but I prefer Lou Dobbs, no one digs into the hard truth of social economic issues like Lou does.Oh, far as adding to or detracting from, that really depends on how much you personally like the particular newscaster in question...*Adding to this with a chuckle for I like you* _No_offense_meant_btw_ but you are probably too young to remember. While you are correct it was called the CBS Evening News, no one thought of it that way...Cronkite served as anchorman of the CBS Evening News from April 16, 1962 until March 6, 1981, a job in which he became an American icon. On September 2, 1963, Cronkite launched network television's first half-hour evening newscast when CBS Evening News expanded from 15 to 30 minutes.For many years, Cronkite was considered one of the most trusted figures in the United States. Affectionately known as "Uncle Walter," he covered many of the important news events of the era so effectively that his image and voice are closely associated with the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the Watergate scandal. He is remembered by many as finishing the CBS Evening News with the phrase, "…and that's the way it is," followed by the date.For two decades Cronkite was THE news, in fact his thoughts mattered more to America than anyone's at the time. Following Cronkite's editorial report during the Tet Offensive that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable, President Lyndon Johnson said, "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, I've lost Middle America." Soon after Cronkite's report, Johnson dropped out of the 1968 presidential race.So you see, he was a massive celebrity, bigger than all the ones on today rolled together...