Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93

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

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Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93.

Walters joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View." In a career that spanned five decades, Walters won 12 Emmy awards, 11 of those while at ABC News.

She made her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

"I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain," she said at the time. "I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women -- and OK, some men too -- who will be taking my place."

[shadowlands1960]

Yes. Her work on 20/20 with Downs was probably her at her best. That was a very well produced show for that genre in it’s time.

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West in pweace...

[shadowlands1960]

An oak..

[bwest]

Didn’t know she was a still alive.

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“longtime ABC News anchor and correspondent who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men”

Boned her way through the glass ceiling.

[DesertRhino]

Let every male near her mount up. Embraced every libtard cause she could find.

[DesertRhino]

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

That cowgirl rode half the industry and men she reported on.

[convoter2016]

Barbara Walters did accomplish what no other woman had accomplished in broadcast news before. I will give her that. She represents the target audience that ABC wants: liberal women. She started The View and that really hasn’t expanded the viewers that tune in to ABC.

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[Organic Panic]

Did she leave the world a better place?

No.

[gathersnomoss]

AKA.... Clara Cleavage.

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Sounds like Pelosi

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BaBa WaWa.

[Dr. Sivana]

They told her not to wear stripes to avoid the strobe effect on the television s of that era. She came up with that instead.

[Ge0ffrey]

Fidel’s good friend. Even her underpants were red.

[Fai Mao]

Just like when An e Richards died, I keep hearing munchins start to sing, “Ding dong the witch is dead......”

Holy Cow! What a racket will be wailed when The PIAPS croaks over!!!!!!

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Castro? Amazing how much he looks like Zelenskyy.

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Probably just as liberal, but I was more of a Connie Chung guy, myself...

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He looks like Truedorp.

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