Like most years, 1981 was a year to remember. Raiders of the Lost Ark was the number one movie in the country. Prince Charles married Princess Diana, and NASA launched the space shuttle Columbia the first flight of the space shuttle program. 1981 was also the year a young man named Mark Johnson began his television career.
The big announcement
Mr. Johnson announced Monday during his 4 pm newscast that he will be retiring from Channel 7 at the end of this year. The broadcaster has covered events from the Olympics to the Super Bowl and other epic sporting events. He won a national Edwin R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the Salt Lake City Olympics.
think is a good shot of getting passed. but it should have been passed decades ago. i mean six times for this guy to come back? let me say two things. the first thing i already said which is you are well within the bounds of opinion journalism. no problem there. the second thing is a political statement: i think it s such a good idea that if the republican presidential candidates don t embrace it, they don t deserve to be elected. that s how good an idea i think it is. everyone that comes on is going and we are even going to go further than that. we are going to take our petition. we are hoping to get a half until to a million speakers. take it to john boehner and mitch mcconnell. give it to them and ask them for comments on it. we are going to shepard this thing through. but i kind of get depressed that i have to do it. i hearken back and i m not comparing myself to edwin r. murrow he did this on television cbs. a show called harvest of
minutes, he would deliver a sermonette. he would tell us how he feels, even though he would probably masquerade it as analysis. it was really opinion. and he would be telling us how we, as decent americans should also feel. he started this whole thing. and we are seeing what he started on cable news every night of the week. i will add one thing. i m going right up against the line here. i will add one small thing. fred friendly, how may know, who produced the late fred friendly who produced harvest of shame never sent edward r. murrow out to a city council meeting in florida to advocate for laws to protect migrant laborers. do you know why. i think i know why. it would be different from what you think. i think it would be because you just don t do it. no. he didn t think of it bernie. bernie goldberg, everybody. dana perino on deck. why didn t president bush the younger seal the border?
deplorable conditions that migrants and some americans as well were working under in the fields of this country. he embarrassed the government to pass certain labor laws to protect these poor people. he was way out top saying you guys are pinheads because you are allowing this to happen. it wasn t just like both sides of the story. again, i m not comparing myself to murrow. but he was the first one and the congress responded to him. yes. here s the thing about the sainted and i don t mean that carcass stickily the sainted edward r. murrow. the great edward r. murrow. he started this whole thing. he started this thing where fact-based journalism collides with opinion journalism. he would do a documentary an hour documentary and for 55 minutes it would be well reported facts about migrants. about senator mccarthy, whatever it was. and then in the last few