Anderson Cooper may be running out of lily pads. Just two weeks ago, he announced his decision to leave CBS’s 60 Minutes, after almost 20 years of multitasking. Over time, he arrived at the pinnacle of the TV news profession as a CNN anchor, growing his gravitas as a cascade of crises consumed our world while contributing to the most storied newsmagazine of the entire TV era.
He’d seen enough of the new CBS. If there are still photos in the CBS hallways of Cronkite, Murrow, Rather, and Edwards, their faces must be forming into frowns. Trust is elusive to define, but it’s an all-important currency that took decades to build and nurture. It is now eroding in mere months, and all those behind-the-scenes discussions about how to be fair, factual, and fierce in storytelling are apparently no longer the company’s driving principle.
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