I’m curious if Walter Cronkite deciding to keep his job at CBS news would have changed anything in any significant manner. There was apparently a policy in place that required CBS employees to retire at 65, but given that he was Walter Cronkite, I have to think if he pushed hard enough he could have kept his job a few more years at least. So let’s assume that CBS decides to waive Cronkite from their policy, and he is not made to retire.
So, what effect would this have on the evening news, and the nation in general? Would Cronkite have eventually been pushed out of the anchor chair, or could he have kept it as long as he wanted to? If he decides and is able to anchor around twenty more years and retires at the dawn of the twenty first century, would evening news broadcasts be in better shape today then they currently are, bleeding viewers to both the internet and 24/7 news channels?
So, what effect would this have on the evening news, and the nation in general? Would Cronkite have eventually been pushed out of the anchor chair, or could he have kept it as long as he wanted to? If he decides and is able to anchor around twenty more years and retires at the dawn of the twenty first century, would evening news broadcasts be in better shape today then they currently are, bleeding viewers to both the internet and 24/7 news channels?