Weekend News Chum

[cahwyguy]

A few items noted over the weekend:

• From the “It keeps going, and going, and going... Someone just blow the damn thing up!” Department: It is the 20th anniversary of the Engergizer Bunny. Introduced in 1989, it has become iconic, representing the ability to hang in there and keep going. The ad agency DDB Needham Worldwide Inc. came up with the

Comments

[geah]

I remember when Paul Moyers started. Everyone thought he was Tom Synder's twin brother!

[ah1270]

I miss Tom Synder.

Regarding high-paid anchors going away, I'm glad. The English have it right. They call them "news-readers". That is all they are. The began as real journalists, but that is long past. They are elitists, actors, personalities and news-readers, easily replaced.

I miss Tim Russert.

My mother-in-law can't figure out the TV any more. All she wants to do is watch a DVD but it takes a Phd to figure out how! :-)

[msolursh]

I remember when John Roberts of CNN was a VJ on MuchMusic in Canada.