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Saturday, April 23, 2022
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It’s Saturday, April 23, 2022
Welcome to the 1,420th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Roger Mudd et al
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan with a group at NBC's taping of its "Christmas in Washington" special in the Pension Building in Washington, D.C. Left to right: NBC News anchor Roger Mudd, CBS News reporter Eric Sevareid, entertainer Dinah Shore, actress Diahann Carroll, actor and musician John Schneider, President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, actor Ben Vereen, and singer/actress Debby Boone.
White House Photographic Office - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75852553
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Commentary
I shaved.
Then I went out to the TV screen and dressed while watching the Flight Attendant.
Took two aspirin for a headache.
Waiting to get a little drowsy so I can take a nap.
It's 4.00am and I am writing.
At 4.15am, nap time.
Closed my eyes for half an hour.
Back at work: eyes still heavy.
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Reading and Writing
I finished the eight chapters of the Confederacy of Dunces for my granddaughter’s online class on Monday.
I’ll be reading Ten Thousand Doors of January, now.
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Screen time
A lot of my screen time will be listening in to the sports analyses of the Celtics win last night.
Very exciting.
But also watching Season Two of the Flight Attendant, just released on HBO Max. I mean ‘just’. At 3.00am today. It’s 3.30am when I’m writing this.
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Wellness
Having finished a robust breakfast, an entire muffin, a soft-boiled egg, and a small orange, I am now writing Saturday’s post on Thursday morning @ 3.22am.
Reporting that this morning breaks my streak of seven great sleeping nights.
This night, I slept 90 minutes and am now faced with making my day productive.
So far I am caffeinated up and active.
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Social Life
My social life is healthy.
A good number of daily emails, several café buddies, my daughter visiting this weekend, my niece coming for dinner on Tuesday. Long-standing friends coming to hang out and have dinner together.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Every time I go and shave,
I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving.
So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
~Mitch Hedberg
And you know what?
It’s 3.45am and I’m going to shave now, and that makes three.
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Mail and other Conversation
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Lots of emails from my beta readers.
Fun.
And great ideas for improvements.
Blog meister responds: Thanks to all.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
On Thursday I made Chicken Pot Pie for one using the leftover from Roast Cornish Hen for one.
I used Oatmilk instead of dairy. It’s so creamy it’s perfect for these opulent meals: rich tasting without the calories.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Early on Sunday morning of Boston Marathon Weekend.
The Common is quiet.
It will look much different in an hour.
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Short Essay*
Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928 – March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards
Ted Kennedy interview
Mudd is best known for an interview with Senator Ted Kennedy broadcast on November 4, 1979. The CBS Reports special Teddy, appeared three days before Kennedy announced his challenge to President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
In addition to questioning Kennedy about the Chappaquiddick incident, Mudd asked, "Senator, why do you want to be President?"
Kennedy's stammering answer, which has been described as "incoherent and repetitive" and "vague, unprepared", while the senator "twitched and squirmed" for an hour, raised serious questions about his motivation in seeking the office, and marked the beginning of the sharp decline in Kennedy's poll numbers. Carter defeated Kennedy for the nomination for a second presidential term. Although the Kennedy family refused to permit any further interviews by Mudd, the interview helped strengthen Mudd's reputation as a leading political journalist.
Mudd won a Peabody Award for the interview. Broadcaster and blogger Hugh Hewitt and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson have used the term "Roger Mudd moment" to describe a self-inflicted disastrous encounter with the press by a presidential candidate.
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It’s Friday, April 22, 2022
Welcome to the 1,419th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
Tom Brokaw
Brokaw preparing for a live broadcast in the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
J. K. Nakata -
U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey photo via Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake October 17, 1989. San Francisco.
Tom Brokaw of NBC News prepares a script for a live broadcast from the Marina District.
Slide I-12, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-547.
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Commentary
It’s Wednesday morning.
The Celtics play the Nets tonight.
It's been too long since Boston has had a sports team that can compete at the highest level and do I am excited about tonight’s game.
Really excited.
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Reading and Writing
I am not in a good reading mode at this moment. I will wait another several days for my Submission routine to establish itself.
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Screen time
I am enjoying the TV series Flight Attendant on HBO. Kaley Cuoco does an outstanding job.
It’s a bit unusual. Sad. Lovely. Painful. Sweet.
A wonderful medium for Kaley’s talents.
How can it possibly segue into a second season?
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Wellness
My excellent sleep streak continues.
Seven days now I’ve been sleeping six of more hours per night.
Now I don’t mean sleep straight through.
At my age that’s impossible. Or so I think.
But after factoring the time lost in two or three waking bouts, I still am sleeping six plus hours.
And I feel fresh every day, really like I’ve never felt so well.
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Understanding aging
Does my aging have anything to do with the changing sleep patterns?
I don’t know.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
I saw a human pyramid once.
It was very unnecessary.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Mail and other Conversation
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I added my daughter Kat to the list of recipients of my latest submission format. She responded,
Happy for you Dad. Work is my entire life now so afraid I won’t have time to review but happy to be witness and included.
Blog meister responds: Kat’s been a great support to me.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
On Wednesday I had a bowl of Bouillabaisse from my freezer. There wasn’t enough broth to balance the fish leftover so I took a chance and added some chicken stock, also from my freezer.
It was delicious.
Not the first time for me, fish and chicken stock.
For a bowl of clam soup, there is a strong tradition of poaching the clams in the shell in 12 oz of chicken stock. Also delicious.
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list of literary agents
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Short Essay*
Thomas John Brokaw (/ˈbroʊkɔː/; born February 6, 1940)[2] is an American retired network television journalist and author. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). At this position he was one of the "Big Three anchors" along with Dan Rather and Peter Jennings. In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He formerly held a special correspondent post for NBC News. He occasionally writes and narrates documentaries for other outlets.
Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" U.S. news anchors during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. All three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs for more than 20 years. They began and retired from their anchor chairs (or died, in Jennings' case) within a year of each other (with Dan Rather notably being replaced by CBS due to false reports broadcast on 60 Minutes II).
Brokaw has also written several books on American history and society in the 20th century. He is the author of The Greatest Generation (1998) and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was awarded to him by President Barack Obama in 2014.
On January 22, 2021, NBC announced that Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of the longest standing anchors in the world at the same news network, along with Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros who has been in Ecuavisa since 1967.
Brokaw's television career began at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa followed by stints at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska, and WSB-TV in Atlanta,[22] In 1966, he joined NBC News, reporting from Los Angeles and anchoring the 11:00 pm news for KNBC. In 1973, NBC made Brokaw White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal, and anchor of the Saturday editions of Nightly News. He became co-host (with Jane Pauley) of NBC's Today Show in 1976 and remained in the job until 1981, when he was succeeded by Bryant Gumbel.
He kept a closely guarded secret for many years, in 2017 Brokaw wrote of having been offered – and having promptly turned down – the press secretary position in the Nixon White House in 1969. While living in California before Nixon made his political comeback, Brokaw had come to know H. R. 'Bob' Haldeman (White House chief of staff and initiator of the offer) as well as Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, and others members of the White House staff.[23]
In 2019, Brokaw wrote a book entitled, "The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate", about his experiences working as a reporter and experiences as a member of the White House press corps.
1982–2004: NBC Nightly News
Brokaw with Nancy Reagan at the Republican National Convention in August 1984
On April 5, 1982, Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington, succeeding John Chancellor. After a year, NBC News president Reuven Frank concluded that the dual-anchor program was not working and selected Brokaw to be sole anchor.[24] The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw commenced on September 5, 1983. Among other news items, he covered the Challenger disaster,[25] EDSA Revolution, the June Struggle, Loma Prieta earthquake,[26] fall of the Berlin Wall[27] and Hurricane Andrew.[28]
Brokaw preparing for a live broadcast in the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Brokaw scored a major coup when, on November 9, 1989, he was the first English-language broadcast journalist to report the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Brokaw attended a televised press conference organized in East Berlin by Günter Schabowski, press spokesman for East German Politburo, which had just decided to allow its citizens to apply to permanently leave the country through its border with West Germany. When Schabowski was asked when this loosening of regulations would take effect, he glanced through his notes, then said, "sofort, unverzüglich" ("immediately, without delay"), touching off a stampede of East Berliners to the Wall. Brokaw had an interview with Schabowski after the press conference, who repeated his "immediately" statement when pressed. Later that evening Brokaw reported from the west side of Brandenburg Gate on this announcement and pandemonium that had broken out in East Berlin because of it.[29]
As anchor, Brokaw conducted the first one-on-one American television interviews with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He and Katie Couric hosted a prime-time newsmagazine, Now, that aired from 1993 to 1994 before being folded into the multi-night Dateline NBC program.[30]
Also, in 1993, on the first broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, in response to David Letterman's monologue containing jokes about NBC, Brokaw walked on stage in a surprise cameo (accompanied by Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra playing the NBC Nightly News theme).[31] He congratulated Letterman on his new show and wished him well, but also stated he was disappointed and shocked; he subsequently walked over to the man holding the cue cards, took two, and remarked, "These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC!", leaving the stage afterwards.[31] Letterman then remarked, "Who would have thought you would ever hear the words 'intellectual property' and 'NBC' in the same sentence?"[31]
In 1996 Brokaw made the following statement about Richard Jewell's suspected involvement in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, after which Jewell sued NBC News:
The speculation is that the FBI is close to making the case. They probably have enough to arrest [Jewell] right now, probably enough to prosecute him, but you always want to have enough to convict him as well. There are still some holes in this case.
Even though NBC stood by its story, the network agreed to pay Jewell $500,000.
Brokaw with Vladimir Putin before an interview on June 2, 2000
On September 11, 2001, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9:30 a.m., following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight. Following the collapse of the second tower, Brokaw observed: "This is war. This is a declaration and an execution of an attack on the United States."[32][33] He continued to anchor coverage to midnight on the following two days. Later that month, a letter containing anthrax was addressed to him as part of the 2001 anthrax attacks. Brokaw was not harmed, but two NBC News employees were infected. In 2008, he testified before the Commission on Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism about the anthrax attacks, publicly discussing his experiences for the first time in a detailed, day-by-day account.[34][35]
In 2002, NBC announced that Brokaw would retire as anchor of the NBC Nightly News following the 2004 Presidential election, to be succeeded by Brian Williams. Brokaw would remain with NBC News in a part-time capacity from that point onwards, serving as an analyst and anchoring and producing documentary programs. Brokaw closed his final Nightly News broadcast in front of 15.7 million viewers on NBC on December 1, 2004, by saying:
Well the time is here. We've been through a lot together through dark days and nights and seasons of hope and joy. Whatever the story, I had only one objective, to get it right. When I failed, it was personally painful, and there was no greater urgency than course correction. On those occasions, I was grateful for your forbearance and always mindful that your patience and attention didn't come with a lifetime warranty.
I was not alone here, of course. I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just beyond these cameras, across the country, and around the world. In too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship and they're family to me.
What have I learned here? More than we have time to recount this evening, but the enduring lessons through the decades are these: it's not the questions that get us in trouble, it's the answers. And just as important, no one person has all the answers.
Just ask a member of the generation that I came to know well, the men and women who came of age in the Great Depression who had great personal sacrifice, saved the world during World War II and returned home to dedicate their lives to improving the nation they had already served so nobly. They weren't perfect, no generation is, but this one left a large and vital legacy of common effort to find common ground here and abroad in which to solve our most vexing problems. They did not give up their personal beliefs and greatest passions, but they never stopped learning from each other and most of all, they did not give up on the idea that we're all in this together, we still are.
And it is in that spirit that I say, thanks, for all that I have learned from you. That's been my richest reward.
That's Nightly News for this Wednesday night. I'm Tom Brokaw. You'll see Brian Williams here tomorrow night, and I'll see you along the way.
By the end of his time as Nightly News anchor, Brokaw was regarded as the most popular news personality in the United States. Nightly News had moved into first place in the Nielsen ratings in late 1996[36] and held on to the spot for the remainder of Brokaw's tenure on the program, placing him ahead of ABC's Peter Jennings and World News Tonight, and CBS's Dan Rather and the CBS Evening News. Along with Jennings and Rather, Brokaw helped usher in the era of the TV news anchor as a lavishly compensated, globe-trotting star in the 1980s. The magnitude of a news event could be measured by whether Brokaw and his counterparts on the other two networks showed up on the scene. Brokaw's retirement in December 2004, followed by Rather's ousting from the CBS Evening News in March 2005, and Jennings's death in August 2005, brought that era to a close.[37]
2004–2021: After Nightly News
Brokaw in 2006 speaking about the attack on Pearl Harbor
After leaving the anchor chair, Brokaw remained at NBC as Special Correspondent, providing periodic reports for Nightly News. He served as an NBC analyst during the 2008 presidential election campaign[38] and moderated the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Belmont University. He reported documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel and in 2006 delivered one of the eulogies during the state funeral of former President Gerald R. Ford.
On June 13, 2008, when NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce the sudden death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, Brokaw served as the announcer. A week later, NBC announced that Brokaw would serve as host of Meet the Press on an interim basis. He was succeeded by David Gregory in December 2008.
Brokaw serves on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Rescue Committee and the Mayo Clinic. He is also a member of the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors and a trustee of the University of South Dakota, the Norton Simon Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the International Rescue Committee. He also provides the voiceover for a University of Iowa advertisement that airs on television during Iowa Hawkeyes athletic events.[39]
In 2011 Brokaw began hosting The Boys in the Hall, a baseball documentary series for Fox Sports Net.[40]
In December 2012, Brokaw starred in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas concert, with live audiences of 84,000. The concert, titled Home for the Holidays, was nationally televised in December 2013.[41]
In April 2014, a new broadcast facility opened on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot, and named in Brokaw's honor as the Brokaw News Center.[42] The facility houses KNBC-TV, Telemundo owned-and-operated station KVEA, and the Los Angeles bureau of NBC News.
In November 2014, President Barack Obama presented Brokaw with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, American's highest civilian honor. He received the honor with the citation, "The chronicler of the Greatest Generation...we celebrate him as one of our nation’s greatest journalists".[43]
On March 11, 2016, Brokaw gave one of the eulogies for former First Lady Nancy Reagan at her funeral. He spoke about his relationship with both the Reagans as a reporter and later anchor.[44]
On January 22, 2021, NBC announced Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of the few news anchors in the world who have spent the longest time on the same news network, along with Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros who has been in Ecuavisa since 1967.[7][8
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It’s Thursday, April 21, 2022
Welcome to the 1,418th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
John Chancellor (1971-1982),
News anchor John Chancellor at the White House, 1970.
Jack Kightlinger - Cropped from White House photo at File:Richard M. Nixon's appearance on, "A Conversation With the President" - NARA - 194705.tif; cropped and converted to jpg
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Commentary
Yea to Amazon, CVS, UPS, and FedEx for having a majority of its workforce above $15.00 per hour.
Boo to McDonald’s, Subway, and Starbuck’s for having a majority of its workforce below $15.00 per hour.
Yea to the state of Massachusetts raising lifeguards’ pay to $26.00/hour.
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Reading and Writing
I’m beginning to feel comfortable about my day’s organization.
Comfortable about what to send to prospective agents.
I think I am close to achieving the rhythm that I need to incorporate another hour of work into my day, that work being a daily submission to a new prospect.
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Screen time
Watched All the old Knives, or about 15 minutes of it.
Very slow start.
Stopped watching it.
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Wellness
It’s Tuesday, and I’m getting my 4th shot in an hour.
Oops. Just got a call. Clinic is out of Pfizer.
They will call me when they are restocked.
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Understanding aging
Age is catching up. I can officially say that my legs are not operating the way that I’d like them to.
Long walks hurt. Always, it seems.
Not good days or bad days.
Denial is dumb. Hoping that it’s just a bad day is futile.
I’m getting older.
Life gets a little harder.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
Fettucini alfredo is
macaroni and cheese for adults.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Mail and other Conversation
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In the process of sending out the first submissions, I made a bunch of changes to it so I asked several friends to take a look at the submission package that I am currently sending to agents.
Within hours, I got my first responses.
Blog meister responds: Every thought is a help. Thank you all.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
I had leftover lamb roast. It did not taste as good as the original.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Boston marathon swells numbers visiting the Public Garden
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Short Essay*
John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in TV news. He served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993.
Chancellor dropped out of high school, worked odd jobs and enlisted in the Army, serving in a public relations unit during World War II.[3] After leaving the service, he attended the University of Illinois Navy Pier campus, completing the last two years of instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1949. Originally a copy boy at 14 for the Chicago Daily News and hired in 1947 to be a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, he started his career in local television in Chicago, eventually turning to national television news as a correspondent on NBC's evening newscast, the Huntley-Brinkley Report.
John Chancellor, Frank Blair and Edwin Newman in The Today Show, 1961
Chancellor covered issues of national importance while on The Huntley-Brinkley Report.
Chancellor covered the 1957 integration of the Little Rock Central High School, where a young Black girl, Elizabeth Eckford, wanted to attend an integrated school. Chancellor's coverage showed the world the white mob that surrounded her. After Chancellor began to cover the Little Rock story, segregationists followed him around town, growing increasingly angry. Chancellor did not run. Instead, he kept reporting, despite the angry crowds around him.
Chancellor spent a number of years as a foreign correspondent in Europe, with postings in Vienna, London, Moscow, and Brussels (NATO Headquarters).
In July 1961, Chancellor replaced Dave Garroway as host of NBC's Today program, a role he filled for fourteen months. Never comfortable with the soft news focus of Today, Chancellor asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the show in the summer of 1962. He left the program in September, and assumed a role as political correspondent for NBC News. He, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman, and Sander Vanocur composed a team that covered the national political conventions in the 1960s so well, they were dubbed by industry observers as the "Four Horsemen".
At the 1964 Republican National Convention, he was arrested for refusing to cede his spot on the floor to "Goldwater Girls," supporters of the Republican presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater. When security came to get him, he was forced to sign off: "I've been promised bail, ladies and gentlemen, by my office. This is John Chancellor, somewhere in custody." He then became the director of the Voice of America in 1965, at the request of President Lyndon Johnson, a spot he held until 1967.
NBC Nightly News
Chancellor returned to NBC in 1968 as senior correspondent on the Huntley-Brinkley Report and, two years later when Chet Huntley retired, Chancellor stepped in to anchor the broadcast, renamed NBC Nightly News, a spot he held from 1970 to 1982; this job became the defining point of his career. Inaugurating the name and setting the pace of the format of Nightly News, from 1970 to 1971, Chancellor, along with David Brinkley and Frank McGee, was one of three anchors who rotated in a co-anchor duo format, held over from Huntley-Brinkley. NBC arranged the rotation by having McGee always broadcast from New York City and Brinkley continue at his customary Washington desk. If McGee did not anchor on a broadcast, Chancellor did from New York; if Brinkley did not, Chancellor filled in from Washington. NBC did not have separate weekend anchors during this period, as it had just inaugurated a Sunday evening newscast in August 1970, so this format was employed seven days a week.
A perceived lack of stability in this arrangement prompted NBC to go with Chancellor full-time (McGee later moved to The Today Show). From August 9, 1971, to June 4, 1976, Chancellor became the sole weeknight anchor (Garrick Utley and others took over weekend duties), stationed at the New York NBC headquarters, with Brinkley reduced to contributing pre-recorded commentaries, titled David Brinkley's Journal, about two to three times per week from Washington. Facing the continued popularity of top-rated CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, NBC Nightly News returned to a co-anchor format from June 7, 1976, until October 9, 1979, with Brinkley resuming his old role at the NBC Washington desk; internal disputes within NBC management prompted the network to remove Brinkley from Nightly News, assigning him to occasional documentaries until his departure for ABC in 1981.
Although Chancellor was a respected, well-spoken journalist and noted author in his own right, his broadcast ratings were eclipsed by Walter Cronkite in the 1970s, when CBS Evening News had become the most popular of the three network weeknight broadcasts. Toward the end of Chancellor's tenure, ABC, for the first time ever, became competitive with NBC and CBS with its World News Tonight.
"Red" and "blue" state concept
Chancellor has the distinction of creating the idea of using colors to represent the states won by presidential candidates in presidential elections. For the 1976 presidential election Chancellor suggested to his network's engineers that they create a large electronic map of the United States and place it in the network's election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, won a state it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, carried a state it would light up in blue. Chancellor, when asked about the color scheme, sought to tie the British Labour's red to the American Democrats; British Conservatives using blue as their ribbon color. By 2000, all the traditional broadcast networks had adopted the present model, though with the colors switched; red for Republicans (as both begin with the same letter), and blue for Democrats.
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It’s Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Welcome to the 1,417th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
John Cameron Swayze
Photo of journalist John Cameron Swayze on the set of the Camel News Caravan, an early network news program on NBC.
NBC Television - eBay item photo front photo back
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Commentary
One of the nicer things I did last year was to create a mailing list of my sons and the children of my three sisters. And a dedicated Cousins Group Mailing.
These nine spent a lot of their childhood together and shared the experience of growing up Caposselas.
We hadn’t been close for many years but a couple of years ago a couple of them decided on a family-barbecue and it was a great success. Near a hundred showed up. Summer past they repeated the event. I attended and had a ball.
Then, this past December, I held a formal Christmas dinner party inviting only those cousins, no family. It worked well. We had ten. The four who didn’t make it, couldn’t.
The mailing list included everyone’s birthdays and I have been sending out individual Birthday greetings using the Cousins group mail to remind the entire group that one of them has a birthday. This is especially important to people like me who don’t do social media. The connection is a great add to my social life.
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Screen time
I watched an episode of The Russian Doll. Mediocre.
Monday night is ‘goodby’ to My Brilliant Friend, the Finale.
But ‘hello’ to Better Call Saul.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
I'm against picketing, but
I don't know how to show it.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Mail and other Conversation
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This from our dear friend, Sally C:
“Good night, David.”
“Good night, Chet.”
Blog meister responds: The famous sign off of the “Huntley-Brinkey Report”.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
I made a vat of lentils and Chinese (Savoy) cabbage.
I am looking to answer the question if this type of cabbage is okay for me to eat.
Other cabbages give me painful gas felt in my chest.
Keeps me awake.
We’ll see.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
marathon people filling the public garden
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Short Essay*
John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995) was an American news commentator and game show panelist during the 1940s and 1950s who later became best known as a product spokesman.
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Swayze was the son of a wholesale drug salesman.[1] He attended school in Atchison, Kansas,[2] and at Culver Military Academy[3] before enrolling at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. There he was a fraternity brother of the subsequent film and television actor Frank Wilcox[citation needed] He left the university before graduating, opting instead for work in radio.[4]
Swayze first sought to work as an actor, but his activity on Broadway ended when acting roles became scarce following the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[2]
Career
Early Years
Swayze returned to the Midwest and worked for the Kansas City Journal-Post as a reporter and as radio editor. From the newsroom, he narrated bulletins for broadcast by Kansas City radio station KMBZ via a microphone the station had placed at the newspaper.[5] On September 27, 1933, he also began the radio program Stranger Than Fiction.[6] In addition, Swayze worked in sports, writing about and broadcasting football games,[7] and took part in early experimental television broadcasts.[5]
Swayze began working full-time doing news updates for KMBZ in 1940. He broadcast news items prepared by United Press Kansas City bureau overnight editor Walter Cronkite.[8]
Network
In 1946, Swayze went to Hollywood, where NBC hired him as director of news and special events for its Western Division.[9]
NBC transferred Swayze to New York City, where he proposed a radio quiz program he called Who Said That Quote.[5] Some sources claim that the show was first proposed and edited by Fred W. Friendly, later of CBS News,[10] who co-produced it with his first wife, Dorothy Greene.[11] In the series, celebrities tried to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports.[10]
NBC premiered the radio program, re-titled Who Said That?, in October 1948. It subsequently also ran on television, from December 1948 until July 1955. Swayze was a permanent panel member of the show and was referred to as the anchorman in what may be the first usage of this term on television.[12]
NBC appointed Swayze the host of its national political convention coverage in 1948, the first commercial coverage ever by television. (NBC Television did broadcast the 1940 Republican National Convention from Philadelphia on a noncommercial, semi-experimental basis, seen in just three cities: Philadelphia, New York City and Schenectady, NY.)
Anchor
In 1948 NBC produced The Camel Newsreel Theatre, a 10-minute program of daily events using newsreel film, which Swayze narrated and often scripted.[2] It was a precursor of the modern television network news program, sponsored by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, maker of Camel cigarettes.
In February 1949, NBC premiered the 15-minute Camel News Caravan, with Swayze appearing on screen. It was the first NBC news program to use NBC-filmed news stories rather than movie newsreels. Swayze read items from the news wires and periodically interviewed newsmakers, but he is remembered best for reporting on the Korean War nightly and for his two catchphrases: "Let's go hopscotching the world for headlines" and his signoff: "That's the story, folks—glad we could get together."
Veteran broadcaster David Brinkley wrote in a memoir that Swayze got the job because of his ability to memorize scripts, which allowed him to recite the news when the primitive teleprompters of the time failed to work properly. Walter Cronkite also credited Swayze with an amazing memory, able to recite the news without resorting to a script.[8]
In early 1955, R.J. Reynolds reduced its sponsorship of the Camel News Caravan to three days a week. Chrysler's Plymouth division sponsored the other days, and on those days the program was titled the Plymouth News Caravan. Eventually, NBC executives tired of Swayze's flamboyant delivery style, in contrast to anchorman Douglas Edwards's comparatively low-key delivery. His rival broadcast on CBS, Douglas Edwards with the News, began to attract Swayze's viewers, hurting his ratings.[14][15] In 1956, Swayze was dismissed in favor of the new team of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. The Huntley-Brinkley Report soon became the nation's top-rated television newscast; Edwards was replaced during 1962 by Walter Cronkite.
Other TV roles
From 1955 to 1957 Swayze hosted and narrated the long-running television drama series The Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950–1963). He hosted the ABC daytime television game show Chance for Romance[16] as well as the syndicated travel program It's a Wonderful World (1963).[17] Swayze was also a substitute host on the television game show To Tell the Truth (1956-1968).: 1089
Product spokesman
Over a period of twenty years beginning in 1956, Swayze became widely known as the commercial spokesman for Timex watches, and for the slogan "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." In one of these commercials, performed live, he strapped the watch to the propeller blades of an outboard motor, lowered it into a tank of water and ran the motor for a few seconds. When he pulled the motor out of the water and tipped up the blades, the watch was missing. Unfazed, he ad libbed, "It's probably on the bottom of the tank–still ticking."[18] Swayze performed in Timex commercials that were mock newscasts before delivering the trademark catchphrase.
Swayze appeared in commercials for auto manufacturer Studebaker, promoting the company's 1963 "Standard" model.
He also appeared in a Volvo television commercial, driven in an early 1970s two-door model on a muddy racetrack by a professional rally driver. In a tip of the hat to Swayze's Timex commercials, the announcer intones, "We've strapped John Cameron Swayze to this stock, standard Volvo to demonstrate just how much this man can take."
Swayze appeared in a 1984 commercial for radio station WHTZ in New York City, which was broadcast in other markets promoting different radio stations.
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It’s Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Welcome to the 1,416th consecutive post to the blog
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Chet Huntley
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Commentary
Boston Marathon Day.
What fun.
But I’m sorry.
Nothing could be more fun than the finish of the Boston Celtics win on Sunday afternoon.
Brilliant.
Historical.
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Reading and Writing
I haven’t worked on editing the second book.
I’ve got to organize my days better.
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Screen time
I watched Dune. I liked it a lot.
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Wellness and Understanding aging
I’m happy to report there is nothing to report.
I did add a trifle of weight to a group of four machines.
Not much, but better than the other way.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
When someone hands you a flyer,
it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Mail and other Conversation
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My daughter called to make final arrangements for her visit with me this coming weekend.
A brief call but so lovely to hear from her; to see her mind in operation as she plans for people, transportation, accommodations, meals.
Blog meister responds: Family can be lovely.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
Sunday dinner was at Capital Grill in Chestnut Hill with two of the nicest people I know, Mike and Kathy.
We had a variety of plates and they were all very good.
Service was very good and the ambience was very good.
Conversation among us flowed easily and happily.
I consider that moment blessed.
We know few people as well as we know old friends.
They are exactly why we take time out to socialize: we recharge ourselves.
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Pictures with Captions from our community**
Ducklings dressed for Easter 2022
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Short Essay*
Chester Robert "Chet" Huntley (December 10, 1911 – March 20, 1974) was an American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.
Huntley was born in Cardwell, Montana, the only son and oldest of four children born to Percy Adams Huntley and Blanche Wadine (née Tatham) Huntley. The family was of Scottish descent. His father was a telegraph operator for the Northern Pacific Railway, and young Chet was born in the Cardwell depot living quarters. Owing to the railroad's seniority system, wherein employees with longer tenure could "bump" newer employees, the family moved often. They lived in Cardwell, Saco, Willow Creek, Logan, Big Timber, Norris, Whitehall, and Three Forks while he was a child.
He graduated from Whitehall High School in Whitehall, and attended Montana State College in Bozeman, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before graduating from the University of Washington in 1934, with a degree in speech and drama.
Career
Huntley began his radio newscast career in 1934 at Seattle's KIRO AM, later working on radio stations in Spokane (KHQ) and Portland. His time (1936–37) in Portland was with KGW-AM, owned by The Oregonian, a Portland daily newspaper. At KGW he was writer, newscaster, and announcer. In 1937 he went to work for KFI in Los Angeles, moving to CBS Radio from 1939 to 1951, then ABC Radio from 1951 to 1955.[5] In 1955, he joined the NBC Radio network, viewed by network executives as "another Ed Murrow".
In 1956, coverage of the national political party conventions was a major point of pride for the fledgling broadcast news organizations. NBC News executives were seeking to counter the growing popularity of CBS' Walter Cronkite, who had been a ratings success at the 1952 conventions. They decided to replace their current news anchor, John Cameron Swayze, but there was a disagreement on who the new anchorman should be. The two leading contenders were Huntley and David Brinkley. The eventual decision was to have both men share the assignment. Their on-air chemistry was apparent from the start, with Huntley's straightforward presentation countered by Brinkley's acerbic wit.
This success soon led to the team replacing Swayze on the network's nightly news program. It was decided to have the two men co-anchor the show; Huntley from New York City, Brinkley from Washington, D.C. The Huntley-Brinkley Report began in October 1956 and was soon a ratings success. Huntley and Brinkley's catchphrase closing of "Good night, Chet"—"Good night, David... and good night for NBC News" was developed by the show's producer, Reuven Frank. Although both anchors initially disliked it, the sign-off became famous. Huntley and Brinkley gained great celebrity themselves, with surveys showing them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart or the Beatles. The gregarious Huntley remained the same, a friend commenting in 1968 that "Chet is warm, he's friendly, he's unaffected, he's—well, he's just so damned nice."
In April 1956, before that year's political conventions that brought him to prominence, Huntley began anchoring a new half-hour program entitled Outlook, produced by Reuven Frank. The program aired for seven years, later changing its name to Chet Huntley Reporting, and often covered racial segregation and civil rights. In January 1962, the program moved from the Sunday evening news time-slot to prime time.
Huntley wrote a memoir of his Montana childhood, The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood, published by Random House in 1968. He also became involved in a New York advertising agency, Levine, Huntley, Schmidt, Plapler & Beaver, gaining a 10 percent share in the agency in exchange for having his name on the letterhead and attending some agency meetings. He maintained his own cattle farm in Stockton, New Jersey, which for a short time in 1964 included a beef line from the farm's cattle promoted under his name before the network intervened due to conflict of interest and promotional concerns.
Huntley's last NBC News broadcast was aired on Friday, July 31, 1970. He returned to Montana, where he conceived and built Big Sky,[12] a ski resort south of Bozeman, which opened in December 1973.
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It’s Monday, April 18, 2022
Welcome to the 1,415th consecutive post to the blog
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Lead Picture*
David Brinkley
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Commentary
One of the nicer things I did last year was to create a mailing list of my sons and the children of my three sisters. And a dedicated Cousins Group Mailing.
These nine spent a lot of their childhood together and shared the experience of growing up Caposselas.
We hadn’t been close for many years but a couple of years ago a couple of them decided on a family-barbecue and it was a great success. Near a hundred showed up. Summer past they repeated the event. I attended and had a ball.
Then, this past December, I held a formal Christmas dinner party inviting only those cousins, no family. It worked well. We had ten. The four who didn’t make it, couldn’t.
The mailing list included everyone’s birthdays and I have been sending out individual Birthday greetings using the Cousins group mail to remind the entire group that one of them has a birthday. This is especially important to people like me who don’t do social media. The connection is a great add to my social life.
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Screen time
Ozark will be airing new chapters on 4/29.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
I wear a necklace, cause
I wanna know when I'm upside down.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Mail and other Conversation
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Kat and I spent some time texting details of her trip north.
A sad occasion, but a welcome opportunity to visit.
Isn’t that the way of memorials?
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
I’m thinking that I need t make a vat of beans and greens.
I use the contents as easy and healthy accompaniments to simple grilled meats and fish.
Also use a 12oz bowl of it for breakfast.
Besides that I love the taste of it, it’s an excellent plant-based item to keep handy to balance our diets.
But it’s a bit of work because I add chicken and pig’s feet, which means a stop at the Chinese supermarket.
Early on Saturday morning was a race before the race.
How much the Boston Marathon means to so many.
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Race before the race
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Short Essay*
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He wrote three books, including the 1988 bestseller Washington Goes to War, about how World War II transformed the nation's capital. His books were largely based on his own observations as a young reporter in the city.
In 1952, Brinkley began providing Washington reporting on NBC Television's evening news program, the Camel News Caravan (the name changed over time), hosted by John Cameron Swayze. In 1956, NBC News executives considered various possibilities to anchor the network's coverage of the Democratic and Republican political conventions, and when executive J. Davidson Taylor suggested pairing two reporters (he had in mind Bill Henry and Ray Scherer), producer Reuven Frank, who favored Brinkley for the job, and NBC's director of news, Joseph Meyers, who favored Chet Huntley, proposed combining Huntley and Brinkley. NBC's top brass consented, but they had so little confidence in the team that they withheld announcing it for two months.[3] Their concern proved unfounded.
The pairing worked so well that on October 29, 1956, the two took over NBC's flagship nightly newscast, with Huntley in New York City and Brinkley in Washington, D.C., for the newly christened Huntley–Brinkley Report. Brinkley's dry wit offset the serious tone set by Huntley, and the program proved popular with audiences turned off by the incessantly serious tone of CBS's news broadcasts of that era. Brinkley's ability to write for the ear with simple, declarative sentences gained him a reputation as one of the medium's most talented writers, and his connections in Washington led CBS's Roger Mudd to observe, "Brinkley, of all the TV guys here, probably has the best sense of the city — best understands its moods and mentality. He knows Washington and he knows the people."[4]: 41 Most often described as "wry", Brinkley once suggested on the air that the best way to resolve the controversy over whether to change the name of Boulder Dam to "Hoover Dam" was to have former president Herbert Hoover change his name to "Herbert Boulder".
Another example of Brinkley's wryness was evinced on the third night of Chicago's infamous Democratic Convention of 1968. After continuous abuses of NBC correspondents made on the floor of the convention — namely, interference and shadowing of the media staff by supporters of Hubert Humphrey, presumably with connections to political boss Richard J. Daley — Brinkley criticized Daley's alleged interference with freedom of the press following Senator Abraham Ribicoff's stormy nomination of George McGovern. Perhaps in reply to a control room request for objectivity and alluding to Daley's refusal to be interviewed by NBC's John Chancellor earlier in the evening, Brinkley was heard over the noise of the McGovern demonstration saying, "Mayor Daley had his chance!" (i.e., "now give the McGovern people theirs").[5]
Huntley and Brinkley's nightly sign-off — "Good night, Chet," Brinkley would intone; "Good night, David," Huntley would reply — entered popular usage and was followed by the beginning of the second movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony as the program credits rolled. The Huntley–Brinkley Report was America's most popular television newscast until it was overtaken, at the end of the 1960s, by the CBS Evening News, anchored by Walter Cronkite. Brinkley and his co-anchor gained such celebrity that Brinkley was forced to cut short his reporting on Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 West Virginia primary because West Virginians were more interested in meeting Brinkley than the candidate.[4]: 34 From 1961 to 1963, Brinkley anchored a prime time news magazine, David Brinkley's Journal. Produced by Ted Yates, the program won a George Foster Peabody Award and two Emmy Awards.[6]
When Huntley retired from the anchor chair in 1970, the evening news program was renamed NBC Nightly News (not insignificantly employing the suffixes of Huntley and Brinkley's surnames for the sake of continuity), and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with John Chancellor and Frank McGee. In 1971, Chancellor was named sole anchor, and Brinkley became the program's commentator, delivering three-minute perspectives several times a week under a reprise of the earlier title, David Brinkley's Journal. By 1976, though, NBC had decided to revive the dual-anchor format, and Brinkley once again anchored the Washington desk for the network until October 1979. But the early years of Nightly News never achieved the popularity of Huntley-Brinkley Report, and none of several news magazine shows anchored by Brinkley during the 1970s succeeded. An unhappy Brinkley left NBC in 1981; NBC Magazine was his last show for that network.
Almost immediately, Brinkley was offered a job at ABC. ABC News president Roone Arledge was anxious to replace ABC's Sunday morning news program, Issues and Answers, which had always lagged far behind CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press. Brinkley was tapped for the job and in 1981 began hosting This Week with David Brinkley. This Week revolutionized the Sunday morning news program format, featuring not only several correspondents interviewing guest newsmakers, but concluding with a roundtable discussion. The format proved highly successful and was soon imitated by ABC's NBC and CBS rivals as well as engendering new programs originating both nationally and from local stations.
For a brief period after Washington-based World News Tonight anchor Frank Reynolds was diagnosed with hepatitis that ultimately claimed his life on July 20, 1983, Brinkley returned to the network anchor desk as Reynolds' substitute from Washington. This arrangement lasted until July 4; when Reynolds' eventual successor as the network anchor, Peter Jennings, was brought in from his post in London.[7]
As part of ABC's commemoration of World War II, Brinkley and the News division produced the special, The Battle of the Bulge: 50 Years On, with Brinkley hosting and interviewing survivors of the battle, Allied and Axis. The special, which aired at Christmas 1994, was critically acclaimed and widely viewed.
Retirement
Days before he announced his retirement from regular news coverage, Brinkley made a rare, on-air mistake during evening coverage of the 1996 United States presidential election at a moment when he thought he was on commercial break. One of his colleagues asked him what he thought of the prospects for Bill Clinton's re-election. He called Clinton "a bore" and added, "The next four years will be filled with pretty words and pretty music and a lot of goddamn nonsense!" Peter Jennings pointed out that they were still on the air. Brinkley said, "Really? Well, I'm leaving anyway!". Brinkley would offer Clinton an apology during a one-on-one interview a week later.
Brinkley last broadcast as host of This Week was November 10, 1996, but he continued to provide short pieces of commentary for the show until 1997. He then fully retired from television. He had been a journalist for over fifty years and had been anchor or host of a daily or weekly national television program for just over forty years. His career extended from the end of the radio age to the age of the internet.
In addition to his ten Emmys and three Peabodys, Brinkley also received the Alfred I. duPont Award in 1958.[8] In 1982, he received the Paul White Award for lifetime achievement from the Radio Television Digital News Association.[9] In 1988, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.[10] In 1992, President George H. W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Bush called him "the elder statesman of broadcast journalism" but Brinkley was much more humble. In an interview in 1992, he said, "Most of my life, I've simply been a reporter covering things and writing and talking about it."
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It’s Sunday, April 17, 2022
Welcome to the 1,414th consecutive post to the blog
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Waler Cronkite
Portrait photograph of Walter Cronkite
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Commentary
My social calendar filled in two days, starting with Saturday, 4/16, two new friends, then the 4/17th with two of my favorite people in the world, then my daughter arriving on Friday, 4/22nd, two family, then the 29th, a friend of long-standing, television buddies, and then the 30th, one of my oldest and dearest friend and the lovely Cathy who I’ve known for twenty years. Pending is a day with daughter Kat who’ll be coming this way for her grandmother’s memorial.
We need the social to balance our otherwise pathetic existence.
A joke.
But friends and family are nice.
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Chuckles and Thoughts
I'm against picketing,
but I don't know how to show it.
~Mitch Hedberg
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Wellness/Understanding Ageing
After ducking my long afternoon walks, on Saturday I took a full walk.
I did it.
But my legs, my thighs, felt pain for the entire 40 minute walk.
You can see how discouraging it would be if you had to face that every time you went out.
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Mail and other Conversation
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This from friend Jim P:
Dom,
I have been reading about your health, energy, and writing. I am concerned, of course, and don’t want to give advice. On the other hand, I can give you my perspectival thoughts: Writing is intense and you were working very intensively on the manuscript. That is a lot of creative energy expended. You also give so much to others, family, friends, the blog. You may need a break from it and even a break from routine and schedule. Maybe spend some days resting and napping and watching movies, i.e., ‘doing nothing’ (except blog of course). Your body is undergoing a shift and maybe needs the space to do it. Just my thoughts my friend.
Love,
Jim
PS: I have found ‘old movies’ to be great medicine.
Blog meister responds: Timely advice. I engaged a series of social activities in the next ten days and was wondering if I was taking too much time off. I’m not. Thanks, Jim. I’ll relax with friends and family.
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Dinner/Food/Recipes
My friends, Bella and Luke had a nice dinner together on Saturday: a green salad, a casserole of Cheese and Sloppy Joes with Penne, and Leg of Lamb. It was good. So was the company.
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Community Photos**
Swan boat prepped for the lagoon
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Short Essay*
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.
Cronkite reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon.
He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of an Ambassador of Exploration award. Cronkite is known for his departing catchphrase, "And that's the way it is", followed by the date of the broadcast.
Cronkite died at his home on July 17, 2009, at age 92 from cerebrovascular disease.
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