Posted on 12/31/2022 1:02:26 AM PST by Morgana
Trailblazing journalist Barbara Walters who led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a network career remarkable for its duration and variety, has died. She was 93.
Walters passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at her New York home, according to Bob Iger, the CEO of The Walt Disney Company which is the parent company of ABC News, her former employer. A cause of death was not immediately provided.
Iger called Walters a 'true legend, a pioneer not just for women in journalism but for journalism itself.'
Walters made headlines in 1976 when she joined ABC News as the first female network news anchor for an evening news program, with an unprecedented $1 million salary. She became a co-host of '20/20,' and in 1997, launched 'The View.'
'She lived her life with no regrets. She was a trailblazer not only for female journalists, but for all women,' her publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement.
Her drive was legendary as she competed - not just with rival networks, but with colleagues at her own network - for each big 'get' in a world jammed with more and more interviewers, including female journalists following in her trail.
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Boy compared to todays harridans on tv shows like the one she founded you can find plenty about her fairly innocuous even charming
Adios WaWa
will they tell the part where they mercilessly attacked her at NBC...made her a punch line...
I’m old enough to remember her impact on the news first-hand. She rejected the ancient “who/what/when/where/why” rules of reporting in favor of asking how her subjects f-e-e-e-e-l about whatever event she was covering. Saccharine to the max. Ruined news commentary forever, but women and soyboys ate it up on toast. My wife loved it, but I often had to leave the room.
And now the “retired” Pope croaks also. Who will be the third one?
Well, I did hear a bell ring twice, today.
She was doing great until “The View” That show sucks.
Did he really die?
She was ‘trailblazing’ alright. Had an affair with married US Senator Edward Brooke....
Just another talking head and promoter of lies
True indeed. In days gone by there were ‘’reporters’’ who did just that- reported the news. The old saw was “Report the news, not the reporter’’.
Today they’re ‘’journalists’’ and the story is all about them.
According to Fox.
Pele.
RIP Bawa Wawa
They’ve turned themselves into political anal yists.
“’She lived her life with no regrets“
Why do some people feel the need to say this or even think it’s true? As soon as I hear it I get the opposite impression.
Nice catch. I missed registering him in all the festivities around Christmas.
“My wife loved it, but I often had to leave the room.”
When my wife has NPR on I have to leave. I can’t stand to hear their voices. Especially the men.
A very poor journalist.
The leftwing communist was called home by satan...
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