TV news is just a baby

It just occurred to me that, with the retirement of Brokaw and Rather, we've really only gone through two generations of news anchors since TV became a mass influence on society. Cronkite was the CBS evening news anchor from 1962 to 1981. Dan Rather took over from Cronkite when he retired.

It reminds me of the way that people react when rulers of long standing die. They have been in power so long that many people don't remember anything else, so they can't imagine a world without them. I'm not entirely sure what I think this means, if it means anything. I just find it interesting.