#NewsAnchors: Crucial to Staying Tethered to Reality & -Letting 'Rumors' flitter-off | @ConversationUS @iMDb @YardBarker

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A series of historical moments announced by anchormen is linked through 'the main word' below. Here, I list a few 'root-words' that tie that word into our lexicon....
In the job-title 'News #Anchor' ( |Host or Presenter of a TV- or Radio-Program ... a.k.a. #Anchorman #Anchorwoman #Anchorperson ( #Anchormen #Anchorwomen #Anchorpeople) ... originally referring to 'the |Far-End |Player on a Tug-of-War Team' or 'the Ending-Runner in a Relay-Race' ... also a title that was used for the first anchorman--John Cameron Swayze--when he was also the most-reappearing player on a celebrity quiz-show), 
the word "Anchor" is built on ancient words that mean "to |Bend" ( |Angle ... the |Hook that Stabilizes & Secures ships by latching into the ground underwater---it's said to be the only Latin nautical term that remains in Germanic languages). #Anchored #Anchoring #Anchors #AnchorsAweigh

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The first 'news anchors' I think of (again, 'anchor-PEOPLE (anchormen, anchorwomen)') are 'the classics': Oklahoma's Linda Cavanaugh and (on a different local station) Jane Jayroe and (maybe still broadcasting) Kent & Kelly Ogle, America's Walter Cronkite & Hugh Downs & Barbara Walters;  

And then Jane Pauley, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Herb Welch, Jim Lehrer, Judy Woodruff, Christopher Cuomo, Mo Rocca ... other crucial ones will come to mind, eventually ...

But--like most "Elder Millennials"--I try to get most of my news from comedians (mostly those that specialize in 'comedic news'---i.e. comedians performing in "news skits," unlike comedians acting like 'normal people discussing the news'). 

The first ones I think of in that vein are SNL's WEEKEND UPDATE-anchors (Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase, Dennis Miller, Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, Amy Poehler, Michael Che, Cecily Strong, Colin Jost ... maybe some I'm missing ... Roseanne Roseanadanna?), 

CC's THE DAILY SHOW (Craig Ferguson? Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah ... with help from a few others who went on to host their own shows (which aren't news-skits so much as 'stand-up routines that focus on news') Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee ...)

It's possible that--just like 'purist' actors prefer that you know them by the names of their biggest characters--anchors prefer that you know them by 'the biggest stories they've covered' ... for instance, 'that guy who proclaimed "Oh, the Humanity!" at the Hindenburg disaster'---I'm sure you could look up his name, but it's not going to move 'that proclamation' to a different area in your memory ...
Trying to find all this stuff about 'TV- & Radio Newscasters,' I was met by a flood of search-results & images from that Will Ferrell movie-series 😒

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