Yes, that's exactly it. If people want to see what breaking the norms is today, it would be, I don't know because I wasn't alive then, Walter Cronkite?

Jim Lehrer was more recent and an excellent voice on a national scale in North America.

Ontario has Steve Paikin who, until very recently, hosted a current affairs show on public television. He is easily in the top 0.0001% of people who can make sense of anything that comes up in the news.