{"id":243,"date":"2004-12-02T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/signing_off.html"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:35:28","slug":"signing_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/02\/signing_off.html","title":{"rendered":"Signing Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 2, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, was always my favorite station growing up; I think it was mostly because it looked the best, crisp and clear compared to the soft, fuzzy look of ABC on Channel 13 and the weak static of Channel 11&#8217;s CBS.  Tom Brokaw was my favorite of the <a title=\"The New York Review of Books: Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and Peter Jennings by David Levine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/gallery\/2212\">Big Three<\/a> anchormen, who have all been there as long as I can really remember.  It didn&#8217;t hurt that Brokaw and I share a birthday; I always preferred him to Ronald Reagan among those of us born that day.  <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t consistently watched the evening news since going tv-less in college ten years ago, and the four years of pessimism since the election of 2000 haven&#8217;t increased my viewing habits either.  For the first time in ages, I watched the entire NBC Nightly News last night, Tom Brokaw&#8217;s last broadcast as an anchor.  I like Brian Williams, and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll do a fine job, but it won&#8217;t be the same without Brokaw&#8217;s authoritative voice and kindly Midwestern smile.  <a title=\"OnAir Bios - Jim Miklaszewski\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/onair\/bios\/J_Miklaszewski.asp\">Jim Miklaszewski<\/a> and <a title=\"MSNBC OnAir:  Andrea Mitchell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/onair\/bios\/A_mitchell.asp\">Andrea Mitchell<\/a> delivered reports, members of the old guard I remember watching in the &#8217;80s; <a title=\"MSNBC - Robert Hager\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3688609\/\">Robert Hager<\/a> and <a title=\"OnAir Bios - Robert Bazell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/onair\/bios\/r_bazell.asp\">Robert Bazell<\/a> must have had the night off (though if you were wondering, MSNBC&#8217;s is still the worst-designed major website around).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 2, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage, was always my favorite station growing up; I think it was mostly because it looked the best, crisp and clear compared to the soft, fuzzy look of ABC on Channel 13 and the weak static of Channel 11&#8217;s CBS. Tom Brokaw was my favorite of the Big Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-nostalgia","category-noted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}