Apple TV’s “The Morning Show,” which recently ended its third season, offers a melodramatic mishmash of media and current events, yet manages to get one thing right: It depicts women as the new faces of television news.

The series starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon not only places women in the anchor chairs for morning and evening newscasts, it demotes their male counterparts to token tasks like reporting the weather – a complete reversal of the way women were utilized for decades in real-life broadcasting.

CNN has installed a new prime-time anchor lineup that is 80% female, with Erin Burnett, Abby Phillip, Laura Coates and Kaitlan Collins. The token male is Anderson Cooper. This can be seen as a somewhat desperate ploy by CNN, which has struggled in the ratings of late, but across the entire TV news spectrum virtually every anchor opening is now being filled by a woman.

Network news managers have long walked a fine line in trying to give women well deserved on-camera opportunities while also chasing ratings in what is, after........

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