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After 21 years as anchor of NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw, 64, steps down this week. He may have started a trend: his CBS rival Dan Rather announced last week that he will give up the anchor chair in March, leaving ABC's Peter Jennings as the last of the three old lions who have personified network news for two decades. TIME's Richard Zoglin got in some last questions...
...RETIRED. TOM BROKAW, 64, anchor of NBC's Nightly News; after 21 years; in New York City. Brokaw, who was promoted from the morning Today show in 1982, helped propel NBC to the top of the ratings, where it has remained since 1997. He also found success as an author with the 1998 best-selling book The Greatest Generation, which celebrated World War II veterans. Brokaw signed off his last newscast by telling viewers: "Thanks for all that I have learned from you. That's been my richest reward...
...until its culmination. Thankfully, network news and the mainstream newspapers have largely refrained from over-covering the case. Yet even these organizations have been forced to kowtow to the pressures of the “alternative” media and cover his guilty verdict. On NBC, for instance, Tom Brokaw featured the verdict prominently on his nightly news program and Dateline aired an hour-long special on the case...
...basically moved into NBC for 30 days,” he said of the debacle of four years ago. “Every time there was some legal development, I would be the person discussing it on the air with someone like Tom Brokaw...
SAFELY ANCHORED NBC has groomed Brian Williams, right, to succeed Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw for 11 years. He got the official nod in 2002 but still had more than two years to wait; he takes over...