Are News Anchors Obsolete?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Paley_Center_IC2009_-The_Future_of_News_Worldwide

A panel of media experts discuss the relevance of TV news anchors in the digital age. While some argue that news anchors create a degree of trust, others suggest that social networking sites like Twitter serve the roles that anchors once did.

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The Paley Center for Media's International Council 2009 NYC brought together the industry's top innovators from across the globe for the most talked about media event of 2009.

From newspapers to magazines to television, the traditional media business model is under siege. Can creating quality news content still be a sustainable business in the global digital economy?

This session features Tony Burman (Managing Director, Al-Jazeera English), Les Hinton (CEO, Dow Jones), Jon Klein (President, CNN/US), Christine Ockrent (Journalist and CEO, Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France), and Prannoy Roy (President and Managing Director, NDTV). David Carr (Columnist, The New York Times) moderates.

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[medliberty]

Instead of "Anchor" why dont they just call them "Telepromter Readers for Big Corporations"?

[Betillo555]

Anchors = Misleading Puppets

[1c2a3t4]

Ammmman-poor is an idiot.... too much to listen to this beaten down broad.

The other dark=er guy probably has a frigin' accent that nobody can understand.

Pathetic... and so is this discussion'

I remember 'Eric Serveried'..... compare you guys and your blather.... to him.

What's amatta with this guy's voice....? He sounds squeezed and eliteste.

I wouldn't want to hear him much... nomatta' what the heck he is trying to sell.

This is a bummer.

[SecondLifeEnglish]

Yes, not only are they (becoming) obsolete. They have done enough harm already. Too much opinion-shaping is happening at the hands of news anchors, so-called journalists/reporters, etc. There is little attempt to remain neutral nowadays, which makes such people highly dangerous instruments of information distribution...They are still making use of "one-way street media", whereas the people crave truth, which is more likely to be found somewhere out there on the information highway...

[plazpastic]

I love the Indian guy acting like adrenaline is a great component of intelligent debate.

[Gimeolots]

I agree with the concept of anchors as branding... However...

Twitter! OMG FTW!!! WEB 2.0!!@!@!@@@!!!!@!1111~!!!

(Guys, it's at best a stupid cute way to blog, for the mentally defective)

[skeletonmom]

@hugozoom-Love it! Heee, heee...

[skeletonmom]

Seems to me that anchors are indeed "branding" not just the network, but now products...ahem...Fox News and Starbucks....do we really need this type of "news"?

Please cut out the bullpucky and leave the actual factual events-let the people take it in and make up our minds...on events...not advertising...

[realisoph]

Some very wise words, Mr. Prannoy Roy... it is indeed time for much more, much more versatile debate.

[shelaughs]

Lots of archaic stuff that is still around is really obsolete. Some things just haven't caught up with their new status of obsolete-ness yet. Look around you... trappings of the old world are dropping like flies in winter.

[CoffeyBreaks]

Citizen that report don't care about viewers not do they have the time to attempt a spin on the news... their only concern is to put it out there raw and let the populace be the judge... Pull up the movie "Network" from 1978 on YouTube, and look at some of the clips, and you'll see the same point being made...