I grew up in an NBC household; I have vague memories of John Chancellor reading the news and stronger memories of Tom Brokaw doing the same. Walter Cronkite never really meant a lot to me as an anchor; I think I sometimes used to get him confused with Captain Kangaroo. As for Frank McCourt, plenty people tell me that Angela's Ashes was great, but the last thing I ever want to read is another Irishman recounting poverty and his father's alcoholism (or another Jew on the Holocaust, another Italian about petty crime, etc.), so I've never read it. I'm aware that both of these men made Important Contributions [...]