Blitzer, along with five other anchors, interviewed President Obama about Syria Monday afternoon.
On Wednesday in San Telmo, Argentines sipped coffee and watched TV news anchors interviewing passers-by as reports on the theft filled news and talk shows.
Walk down the street in the days leading up to the primary, and you're liable to see network anchors interviewing voters, pollsters conducting focus groups in restaurants, and sign-toting supporters engaging in heated exchanges with their rivals.
Instead, viewers got the television equivalent of the modern paperback -- from the Nicholson Baker-novel obsessiveness of "ABC News Now" to the fluffy, self-absorbed novellas of anchors interviewing each other on MSNBC and Fox News.
Ms. Woodruff, a longtime CNN anchor, interviews guests for a monthly program.
Jeff Greenfield, also an anchor, interviews David Biello, an associate editor of Scientific American, about the future of the solar industry in the United States.
Scott Simon, the episode's anchor, interviews Robyn Stone, a deputy assistant secretary of health and human services for disability, aging and long-term care policy under President Bill Clinton.
Ray Suarez, the show's anchor, interviews Linda Gibbs, a deputy mayor of New York, about the program, which was supported by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
And some networks were chafing at what the executives at all three described as an uncompromising approach to when and where Mr. Obama would grant the anchor interviews, which are to take place outside the war zone.
In what would come to have lasting implications far beyond the 2008 presidential campaign--Tina Faye's mimicry of this event on Saturday Night Live would become a cultural icon--Sarah Palin was slated to undergo her second round of anchor interviews, this time with Katie Couric of the CBS Nightly News.
