Brokaw is gone. so what!!!!!!

Tom Shales discusses Tom Brokaw's departure today and completely misses the point. He does get one thing right.

With Dan Rather, anchor of "The CBS Evening News," set to follow Brokaw out the door next spring, abdicating a job he once said was the most important at any network, the whole idea of the anchor as a network's top gun and flag-bearer is looking shaky and frail, and perhaps irrelevant. Jennings will be the only veteran in an anchor chair after Rather leaves, and instead of the earth shuddering at that prospect, there's a disheartening aura of "so what?"

The real point is that the era of the real TV anchor like Walter Cronkite ended years ago. Tom Brokaw didn't work for NBC he worked for General Electric, a company had everything to gain, in the short term at least, by insuring that the Imperial feudalists of the Bush administration remained in power. So in order to keep is seven million dollar a year job Brokaw had to become a reader of party propaganda for what amounts to the American version of Pravda.