Old anchors no longer hold, and a sense of history is lost.
The fundamentals of the local economy, still connected in many ways to the old anchors of mining and freight, have shifted toward service and tourism.
The end of Britain's empire in the 1950s and 1960s, coupled with the gradual erosion of once-rigid class divides, have cast the country loose from the old anchors, and left many people in a restless search for new certainties, new sources of identity and pride.
"They don't look the same as a 22-year-old anchor reading the news, but our audience doesn't look that way either".
The 26-year-old anchor, a Ukrainian actress named Svetlana Pecotska, opens the newscast fully clothed, reading a report all but indistinguishable from the top reports on other major programs.
The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as "total bullshit", "disgusting", "defamation" and "a piece of garbage" – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
The partners are developing the project under the city's five-year-old Anchor Program, which is intended to encourage retail development in areas where the city has invested heavily in housing.
Marc Staal, the 24-year-old anchor of the club's blue line, participated in an hour-long, non-contact practice on Sunday, but he will not travel with the team to Prague, where the Rangers play the first of four European preseason games on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Ms. Banfield is now sharing the stage with seasoned war correspondents like Christiane Amanpour on CNN and Bob Simon of CBS, a fact that has caused discomfort among some inside NBC who wonder if the 33-year-old anchor has been brought along too quickly.
In a 2010 poll of Latinos by the Pew Hispanic Center the 54-year-old anchor was named the fourth most important Hispanic leader in the country.
