I remember watching good journalists retiring or getting let go right around the time Walter Cronkite retired (1981). Nobody was sure if Cronkite was a Democrat or a Republican. That was the standard back them -- a television journalist tried to be so neutral that you couldn't tell what his personal politics were. I remember when television "journalists" began to have personal opinions, and to express them during "news" shows. I remember when the networks started to hire women with beautiful hair and long, shapely legs, which they would display under their tables. I remember the coming of the commentators, the cranks and nuts who had an ax to grind and were given a forum on news programs to grind it. We got that crazy freak from the movie *Network* on the evening news every night. But it all started to go south when we lost Walter Cronkite.