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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916 and is now retired. Began his career as broadcast journalist in 1937. Best known as anchorman for CBS Evening News and ending his newscasts with ¿And that¿s the way it is.¿
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
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Julian Goodman dies at 90; former NBC president
Julian Goodman, the former NBC president who helped establish Chet Huntley and David Brinkley as a well-known news team and led the network from 1966 to 1974, has died. He was 90.
Goodman died Monday after a brief illness in Juno Beach, Fla., where he...Tags: Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945), Radio Industry, Radio, Oakland Raiders
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Weekend TV Talk Shows: Newt Gingrich; Rudy Giuliani; Antonio Villaraigosa
Show TrackerSATURDAY The Chris Matthews Show 2012 campaign, Memorial Day. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC; 5:30 a.m. Sunday KNBC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today 2012 election; the Black Dahlia murder; summer movie previews. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning...... -
Goldberg: Blame it on Brokaw
You know who I blame for the terrible tone in American politics? Tom Brokaw.
No, not the man himself, but what he represents.
Since Dan Rather famously beclowned himself, Brokaw stands as the last of the respected "voice of God" news anchors (CBS News...Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Joe Biden, News Media, White House, Republican Party
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Mike McGrady dies at 78; journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...Tags: Pneumonia, News Media, Boynton Beach, Harold Robbins, Periodicals
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Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer
As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program.
Beginning in 1968, as one of...Tags: Music, White House, Morley Safer, Judaism, Steve Kroft
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PASSINGS: Jimmy Ellis, Jay McMullen
Jimmy Ellis
Frontman for the R&B band Trammps
Jimmy Ellis, 74, the frontman for the Trammps R&B group who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby, burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit, died Thursday at a nursing home in Rock Hill, S.C., according to the Bass-...Tags: Music, Documentary (genre), Entertainment, Columbia University, Alzheimer's Disease
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Q+LA Ellen Barkin
LA Times MagazineOpinionated in a way only a dyed-in-the-wool Bronx native can be.... -
Mike Wallace: Newsman's death symbolizes passing of an era
Company TownMike Wallace: The veteran CBS newsman has died at 93. His tenacious style helped define a generation of journalists but that style is becoming increasingly rare.... -
Margaret Tante Burk dies at 93; host of Round Table West
Margaret Tante Burk, a businesswoman, publicist and book enthusiast who co-founded one of the country's largest literary lunch groups, died Oct. 6 in Los Angeles of natural causes, her son, Harry, said. She was 93.
For 30 years, until 2007, Burk ran...Tags: Richard Paul Evans, Macdonald Carey, Robert F. Kennedy, Diplomacy, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Gregory Rodriguez: Why social media isn't
Mexican food and beer. That's what retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggests might pull this fractured nation back together again. Those were the tools she used to reach consensus in the 1970s when she was a leader in the Arizona...Tags: Government, Education, Breads, Mass Media, Colleges and Universities
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Brian Williams stays cool under fire (alarm) during 'Nightly News'
Show TrackerBrian Williams continued to read the news while a fire alarm buzzed incessantly during the taping of the "NBC Nightly News." Brian Williams eventually had to smile and reassure viewers that he was not in danger....
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