PBS anchor Jim Lehrer takes shot at network rivals in his latest novel

[Wetzelbill]

Jim Lehrer! This is almost like Gandhi punching out Jesus or something. -WB

ANCHOR NOSTALGIA

August 12, 2007 -- PBS anchor Jim Lehrer takes a veiled shot at Katie Couric , Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson in his upcoming novel, "Eureka." His main character, a scooter-riding insurance executive named Otis Halstead, laments about the evening news: "When there were Huntley-Brinkley and Walter Cronkite and Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid and John Chancellor, the reporting had seemed calm, straight, newsy, necessary to watch. Now it wasn't any of those things . . . their newscasts more like entertainment." The change doesn't work for him because audiences already have "plenty of other ways to be entertained. Such as the circus."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08122007/gossip/pagesix/anchor_nostalgia_pagesix_.htm

[pansypoo53219]

1. BOOTIFUL! oh SNAP!

he was fucking hilarious on colbert report.
course i can't watch him on PBS. i was always more a fan of macniell.

[enigmatic]

2. I love Lehrer's "The One-Eyed Mack" novels

Great books if haven't read them; I'm looking forward to this, too..

[Wetzelbill]

3. I haven't ever read anything of his

Maybe one of these years I'll get around to it. Too many books, too little time. :)