ARTS In this age of dampened American spirits, some look back wistfully on an earlier time when presidential contests were filtered through impartial and upstanding television anchors, such as Edward Murrow or Walter Cronkite.
Rose-tinted, or otherwise, such nostalgia is felt by a dwindling minority. Most viewers have for years been voting with their remote controls for something very different. The tastes of most of those who still get their news from news shows – a larger but also dwindling minority – could be summarised in four words: Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann.
