You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Diane Sawyer is stepping down.
David Muir is stepping up.
People say news is dead, but I think people are wrong.
When you get an iphone 5 and tweet a story as news? That’s trending DOA.
When a main anchor of one of the 3 affiliates steps down, it’s news people making news.
Sawyer is battled tested tough. She rose from the morning news ranks to the big chair.
She reportedly makes 20 million dollars a year.
She was the golden girl.
Now it’s David Muir. White, 40, good teeth.
His hair is perfectly quaffed as if tiny stylist fairies prance in his locks.
Sawyer is out. Muir is in. There’s a change in the air.
The network is going for young gun over top dog.
Lost in the shuffle?
Perhaps the networks most accomplished newsman.
George Stephanopoulos.
He is the only bastion of journalistic relevance in the morning.
When the other female anchors run around like dodo birds chirping about the number of hits a youtube video got, George sits there, stoically, a throw back to a time when news was methodical and reserved.
David Muir becoming evening anchor means the network’s best journalist works from 7am – 9am.
A decade ago, that would not have been the case.
The morning guy would have moved into the anchor chair and the news train would have left the station.
George Stephanopoulos is going to be prominently featured in breaking news coverage and political events, ABC says.