"When you go from Walter Cronkite to Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, there has been a decline."

Interesting (or perhaps not?) that MSW chose the only two openly gay men at CNN out of this long, long list of CNN media figures that includes such luminaries as Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CNN_anchors#News_anchors.2C_correspondents.2C_hosts.2C_political_commentators.2C_regular_contributors_and_meteorologists