By Douglas J. Rowe
The Associated Press
Published on 7/9/2004
Excerpt:
The comic, unflattering characterization of anchormen recurs for several reasons, say pop culture observers and media mavens:
• They’re authority figures.
“Kind of like dads in sitcoms,” laughed Jill Geisler, the first woman in the United States to become the news director of a major-market network affiliate. …
Geisler, who joined the Poynter Institute in 1998 after a 25-year career at Milwaukee’s WITI-TV, maintains the Burgundys don’t last long.
“The Ron Burgundys of this world are found out pretty darn soon. They’re the people who don’t get to work election night,” she said, “or they don’t get called in to work the big developing story … that cannot be scripted.”
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