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Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93
ABC News ^ | December 30th, 2022 | Luchina Fisher and Bill Hutchinson

Posted on 12/30/2022 6:52:16 PM PST by shadowlands1960

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."

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To: newzjunkey

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.


41 posted on 12/30/2022 7:12:19 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

West in pweace...


42 posted on 12/30/2022 7:12:38 PM PST by ValleyofHope (Anti-marxist ally)
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To: x

An oak..


43 posted on 12/30/2022 7:13:14 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Didn’t know she was a still alive.


44 posted on 12/30/2022 7:13:22 PM PST by bwest
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To: shadowlands1960

“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.


45 posted on 12/30/2022 7:15:07 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: dfwgator

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


46 posted on 12/30/2022 7:16:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Vermont Lt

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.


47 posted on 12/30/2022 7:19:30 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: shadowlands1960

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.


48 posted on 12/30/2022 7:19:59 PM PST by convoter2016
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49 posted on 12/30/2022 7:22:29 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: shadowlands1960

Did she leave the world a better place?

No.


50 posted on 12/30/2022 7:23:00 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: caww

AKA.... Clara Cleavage.


51 posted on 12/30/2022 7:24:05 PM PST by gathersnomoss (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: DesertRhino

Sounds like Pelosi


52 posted on 12/30/2022 7:24:12 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: shadowlands1960

BaBa WaWa.


53 posted on 12/30/2022 7:25:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: shadowlands1960

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.
54 posted on 12/30/2022 7:25:28 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: shadowlands1960

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


55 posted on 12/30/2022 7:25:34 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: shadowlands1960

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!!!!!!


56 posted on 12/30/2022 7:27:16 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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To: dfwgator

Castro? Amazing how much he looks like Zelenskyy.


57 posted on 12/30/2022 7:27:16 PM PST by Veto! (FJB sucks rocks)
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To: caww
Probably just as liberal, but I was more of a Connie Chung guy, myself...


58 posted on 12/30/2022 7:29:27 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Veto!

He looks like Truedorp.


59 posted on 12/30/2022 7:29:55 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shadowlands1960

60 posted on 12/30/2022 7:30:15 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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