The anchoring job of the evening news is still the most prestigious job in American journalism, certainly in television journalism. It is the pinnacle.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

[At a screening on Monday evening at the Museum of Television and Radio, Professor Sachs said of the coming United Nations meeting,] Maybe what we've got to do is lead by action, and the government will follow along. ... Europe has stepped up, but America should take the lead, or at least more of a lead.

It's a seminal moment. Is the anchor of the evening news still going to be the voice and face of the network ?

It's not a casting call. This is not a test of who should be on the evening news. It's a test of how best to present a broadcast that plays a distinctive and important role in today's crowded news landscape.