when i was growing up on the other coast my family and i knew all the local news anchors by name, they were almost like local celebrities sometimes. but i guess by early 2000s i fell off watching broadcast TV, much less catching "the news" every day/evening. internet ate that mindshare for me.
do you know any of your local anchors?
edit: to be honest while that's accurate i could probably go further and observe that is just another instance of my larger... abstraction... from my physical surroundings. when you stay home most of the time and don't do much else much of the world around you remains unknown.
