The non-newsworthiness may just be an indicator that the job isn't seen as being as prestigious as it used to be, and perhaps networks no longer consider their anchorperson to be the face of the network, a cornerstone of its identity.
While the Sangh Parivar does not seem to have come to a final decision over whether or not it is anti-national and suicidal to question the police, Arnab Goswami, anchorperson of Times Now television, has stepped up to the plate.
Perhaps a new kind of news anchorperson will host a news broadcast with a collection of editors in a more interesting format than the website homepage of today.
If you're the anchorperson, you get the money, you get the glory when there is any, but you're the guy that's got to get it in there".
And the poor old talking anchorperson stands no chance at all! "The crawl fit its time, and fit the technology of the time," said Bart Feder, the senior vice president of programming for CNN.
"I look around the crowd," Cronkite says, "and see who wants to be an anchorperson, not a journalist.
The job of the anchorperson then is to sit there and knit the whole thing together and give it perspective and give it context and know what questions to ask and know who to bring in, who to put onstage.
"The one thing that has always stunned me is the anchorperson's ability to get a table in a restaurant," he says, though you suspect he might be able to come up with a few more impressive examples, like instant access to world leaders as well as maître d's.
A constant barrage of unprecedented horrors around the world causes misery, sure, but it also provides hilarious new predicaments for the staffers of a network's news-graphics department as they scramble to produce the little visuals that appear over their anchorperson's shoulder, dizzily trying to keep up with nightmarish scenarios no one could have imagined the day before.
In recent years politicians have been given a run for their money at commencement time by anchorpersons and Hollywood celebrities, but loftily placed public officials, especially those who can be credibly deemed statesmen, are still the most sought-after speakers — and the biggest "get" of all, of course, is the President of the United States.
(Let's not forget that the three broadcast networks are able to pay their anchorpersons a combined forty million dollars a year).
