The delivery of the news

I swear to the gods, I'm going to have to stop watching the news. It's not that the news is depressing, which it is, that I'd stop (the reason H stopped) but because the newscasters, with very few exceptions, drive me up the wall. They're smiling all the time. They act like they're my buddy. They're trying to be so goddamn nice. I can't imagine Cronkite or Brinkley acting this way! It's driving me crazy. I don't want to listen to chummy bullshit, I want the NEWS. The last decent newscaster I've seen on TV was Aaron Brown, who got canned by CNN. He was too old school.