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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Why not tell her that you will not tolerate national commie radio in any room you are in. I was surprised that my remarks that Jane Fonda was dogshit caused her to never watch a Jane film again in my presence.
she started the View. I’d forgotten that.
Why’d she bail?
I remember first seeing that sort of thing taking place with celebrities back in about May 1985 when Selma Diamond (Night Court) and Dolph Sweet (Gimme A Break) passed within a few days of each other at about the same age (64) from smoking related cancer. And later that year, it was Rock Hudson, Yul Brynner, and Johnny Olson (game show announcer) within ten days of each other. And looking up in the IMDB, Elvis Presley passed on August 16 1977 and about two or three days later, so did Groucho Marx.
I was always thankful she started that chain of convenience stores, Wawa.
It’s a joke. Pass it on in comments elsewhere.
Celebrities always die in 3s. Pele, Babs, and Pope Bennidict.
RIP.
She was OK.
NOT PERFECT, BUT OK and pretty level-headed.
LOL!. I see what you did there.
It truly is an awful show may be the worst
A Playboy bunny
Good memory. I do remember Elvis passing. Like they say if you remember the 70’s...
Her publicist, her hairdresser, her lawyer, her maid and her healthcare worker?
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