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Posted on 08/05/2014 1:27:09 PM PDT by EveningStar
Jess Marlow, a former Los Angeles news anchor whose no-nonsense delivery reflected a passion for facts over fluff, died Sunday in a Denver-area nursing home. He was 84.
His death from complications of Alzheimer’s disease was confirmed by his nephew Bill Marlow.
Working at KCBS-TV and KNBC-TV for 31 years and then coming out of retirement to co-host a public affairs show on KCET-TV, Marlow was among Southern California’s most respected newscasters.
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If the LA Times calls him “respected” he was probably a liberal or something
For people who don’t know
This is SO CAL news legend
He was wonderful, one of his greatest stories was “Christine Lund pregnant Jerry Dunphy leaves town film at eleven “.
Marlowe was a guest speaker in my journalism class, back in the 1970s. He did not say anything political one way or the other, just talked about how news was reported on TV.
RIP.
Being from the east coast I can’t say I ever saw or heard him, but from the comment here he sounds a lot like Phillies, John Facenida.
Marlow was definitely old school; I’d forgotten about his questioning of the “facts” and the rush to judgment in the McMartin preschool case. He was virtually alone in the SoCal media establishment in challenging the information provided by police and prosecutors.
Meanwhile, a reporter for KABC-TV (the late Wayne Satz) was romantically involved with a therapist who elicited stories of horrific sexual abuse from children who attended the McMartin pre-school. And if I’m not mistaken, an editor at the LA Times was also involved with a female prosecutor who led efforts to railroad the family that ran the school. Both claimed there was never any conflict of interest.
It took almost a decade for Peggy McMartin, her son and other employees at the school to clear their names, but their lives were ruined. Satz was never sanctioned by Channel 7 and was later hired by KTTV in Los Angeles as a talk show host. Ditto for the “journalists” at the LA Times, which pursued the story with the same zeal—and blatant disregard for the truth.
The fact that Jess Marlow was the only well-known reporter to question the case as it unfolded speaks volumes about the state of American journalism—and he made those comments almost 30 years ago. Today, the media is infinitely worse, and you won’t find an anchor with the credibility of Jess Marlow who will speak up when the facts don’t conform the pre-conceived media template.
If the LA Times calls him “respected” he was probably a liberal or something
Ordinarily, I would tend to agree, but Jess was one of the only “good guys” in SoCal TV news.
Thanks.
I moved to the area (Orange County) in 1981. I was appalled by the “fluff” in local TV news. Marlow was the only guy that I actually admired. Thanks for your response.
55 year old native So. Kalifornian, I remember well Marlow, Dumphy, Putnam, Lund, Fishman, they just reported the news. That’s all you could ask for.
I read the story about him and recognized his name and that he retired in 1997 and realized that the last time I watched local news regularly was pre internet.
I grew up in So Cal and I was a news junkey.. I was the only 7 year old kid I knew that would get home from school and watch 2 hours of local news.. going back to the early 60’s with Jerry Dunphy and “The Big News”
I agree !
Impressive !
I loved watching Jerry Dunphy and Chuck Henry!
Then Stu Nahan on KTLA, and listening to The Ken And Bob Show on KABC, and Ray Briem at night...great times.
Ed
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