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June 12, 2003
Good Night, David
I was saddened to read that another of my childhood icons has passed...David Brinkley. A nightly fixture when I was growing up, he belonged to an era of honorable journalism that has sadly also passed. You could no more imagine him being undignified in his reporting than you could imagine the Pope conducting Mass in a thong.
Fittingly, he summed it all up best:
"If I were 20 years old, I would try to do the same thing again, all of it," he told a New York Times interviewer — his son Joel — in a February 1997 profile. "I have no regrets. None at all."
We should all be that lucky.
Posted by Rita at June 12, 2003 09:47 AM