The perpetually Granny Smith-tongued Maureen Dowd on the boy's club that is anchoring a network newscast in the U.S.

A small irony of this is that when I saw Dowd on the Daily Show some months back, I was left thinking, "definitely not a TV person." :)

Anyways, an excerpt:

t's the End of an Era. A momentous change.

Tonight on NBC, one tall and handsome white male anchor with bespoke clothes will replace another tall and handsome white male anchor with bespoke clothes.

Even Tom Brokaw is a little surprised that he has been succeeded by someone who looks like the love child he and Peter Jennings never had.

"I honestly thought, eight or nine years ago, that when we left," Mr. Brokaw said, referring to himself, Peter and Dan Rather, "that it would be the end of white male anchor time."

Nah. Those guys are hard to kill off. Indeed, white men are ascendant in Red State America.