Garrick Utley, a Mainstay at NBC News, Dies at 74

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/business/garrick-utley-former-nbc-anchor-and-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-74.html?_r=0 ^ | 2/21/2014 | ROBERT D. McFADDEN

[Borges]

Oops forgot to put the source in there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Timber Rattler]

Not sure about his slant, but I always liked him.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Fluent in Russian, German and French

The people the MSM hires today can barely speak English.

[T-Bird45]

RIP - thought he was a pretty straight shooter as a reporter. Even his Vietnam War reporting was less slanted than many of his contemporaries (think D. Rather.)

[FAA]

Same here.

[AU72]

Pretty much takes care of the old school TV journalists like Tim Russert
and David Brinkley (Clinton- "He's a bore, and he will always be a bore")

[skinkinthegrass]

R.I.P. Garrick.
seems back then; (iirc, a rarity :) an honest reporter.
so unlike the government "shills" of today.

[JennysCool]

He was fair, very professional but always with a sense of humor. One of the last of a breed, unfortunately.

[dfwgator]

And one of the best names for a reporter, ever.

[Biggirl]

RIP

[GeronL]

I definitely remember that name from somewhere

[clintonh8r]

I always enjoyed his reporting. He was quite sophisticated and highly educated, but he never came across as superior to his viewers. In fact, it often seemed like he was sharing a sly joke or insight with us. Edwin Newman was much the same. They make the current crop of “journalists” look like preening imbeciles.

[Timber Rattler]

[dennisw]

He was old school meaning not a liberal out slanting the news.

[babble-on]

He was a good one. And as a poster said earlier, I never knew what his political slant was, just that he conveyed the info clearly and with intelligence and some wit.

[GeronL]

As opposed to Garak

"Good evening, I am Elim Garak and this is the news..."

[wally_bert]

With the obsidian network news....

[Buckeye McFrog]

I remember an aging David Brinkley giving a great interview in which he was starting to spit sparks as he recalled “as soon as I finally started to make some decent money in this business, the Democrats came to power and taxed it all away from me.”