Someone recently speculated that American males are becoming more feminized, proof being that the voices of male anchor persons are higher than in past generations.
Compare and contrast Charlie Gibson’s squeak with Walter Cronkite stentorian tones, for example.
I’d suggest that the tenor of today’s anchor voices is less indicative of diminishing manliness in public personae than their lack of judgment and character.
Can you imagine Chet Huntley or David Brinkley crying and babbling about a thrill going up their legs while listening to a political candidate?
Not to mention the piling on of Hillary Clinton and then Sarah Palin: it was unmanly and unseemly, and I would guess that it would have disgusted Edward R. Murrow, Eric Sevareid and any other classy journalist whom the world is poorer without.
Must be the water.