Three Was the Magic Number

Matt Welch | November 24, 2004

As the New York Times begins the Peter Jennings deathwatch, a latchkey nation wonders anxiously: who in the post-Big 3 universe is now going to pay for the ghostwriting of such classic pieces of spoon-fed Americana as The Canadian's In Search of America, Diamond Dan's The American Dream, and Slurry Brokaw's Never-ending Generation series? Who will pocket still more millions by letting us grok their hardscrabble, blue-collar personal creation myths? Who now will do the important work of interpreting Iowa, ending terrorism, and teaching us about journalism? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to ... Brian Williams?

Comments

|11.24.04 @ 11:41AM|#

Gary Gnu?

|11.24.04 @ 12:48PM|#

That can't be improved on, hilarious and triumphant and insolent at the same time.

|11.24.04 @ 2:40PM|#

I volunteer to the truthteller.

|11.24.04 @ 2:41PM|#

Oh never mind.

|11.24.04 @ 4:48PM|#

Bill Moyers is leaving NOW. :)

Of course he's being replaced by the even more sanctimonious David Broncaccio (sp?). :(

|11.24.04 @ 5:05PM|#

What's Chevy Chase doing these days?

|11.25.04 @ 1:34PM|#

I don't know, but I understand he's very angry about it.

coyote|11.26.04 @ 10:27PM|#

Here are my suggestions to replace the network anchors.