Will Ferrell is hilarious as Ron Burgundy, a big-shot news anchor in 1970s San Diego. Ron's reign over the newsroom is questioned when a hardworking feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), shows up and tears the station up with her new ideas. At first, Ron pretends he's hip to the changes, but when he tires of it, the true-blue chauvinist in him declares an all-out war.