Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93

ABC News ^ | December 30th, 2022 | Luchina Fisher and Bill Hutchinson

[shadowlands1960]

She definitely considered herself one of the power elites who were her constant subjects. She probably was. I remember when she jumped networks a few decades ago, they were making like it was the biggest story since the Titanic..

[NWFree]

Too bad she didn’t take Leslie Stahl with her

[BobL]

She did her job...

[Williams]

She was a snob, became a caricature of herself.
Didn’t she ask Jimmy Carter what type of tree he would be?
Supposed to have had an affair with Castro.
And the republican senator from Massachusetts?

[Vigilanteman]

. . . but she had a nice rack.

[GOPJ]

The View when Walters was involved was intellectual and interesting. It’s wasn’t ‘silly Bimbos on Parade’... like it is today.

[Vermont Lt]

She was a trailblazer in a business that was not good for women.

My wife had a career as a broadcaster. In her first job interview some guy in his 60’s hit on her. People she reported on hit on her. One boss told her to get an abortion when she was pregnant with our daughter.

Barbara Walters success was a big part in ending the “reporter is a bimbo” mindset.

While I didn’t like her politics, I respect what she did for the profession.

[pax_et_bonum]

Here ya go.

Sure do miss Gilda.

[dfwgator]

Sure do miss Gilda.

We all do, my FRiend.

[broken_clock]

I put her on the same level as Walter Cronkite; She knew what she was doing to the American people.

[pax_et_bonum]

RIP, Barbara.

[shadowlands1960]

Her and Oprah

[Macoozie]

Turn the effin page.
This is another that did more damage for which she would never be held accountable.

Good riddance.

Dinosaurs, be gone!

[WMarshal]

Good night leftist.

[pax_et_bonum]

I once won a fruit decorating contest with my Rosanna Banana-Dana, a banana with black pipe-cleaner corkscrew hair.

Glory Days.

🤣🤣🤣

[shadowlands1960]

Yeah.. she was one of those old fashioned ‘formidable liberal women.’ I know the breed... very popular with the ‘ladies who lunch..’ etc..

[SuperLuminal]

She was an educated and more intelligent version of Hanoi Jane...

She never came across an individual freedom or liberty she believed was in the hive interest...

May she R.I.P.

[Political Junkie Too]

Now she's tree food.

-PJ

[newzjunkey]

I generally enjoyed her long form interviews and watched her and Hugh Downs on 20/20 for a long time. It’s where I first encountered John Stossel

[x]

So if she becomes a tree, what kind of tree will she be?