Commentary: Rich Manieri - Journalistic objectivity certainly does matter
Rich Manieri
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This is almost too easy, but I can’t resist. I was actually going to write a column about President Biden’s dog, Major, biting people; also among the lowest of the hanging fruits. “President’s dog a Major pain.” It writes itself.
But then, out of nowhere, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt served up some choice morsels and made an excellent case for entry into the Stupid Things Journalists Said Hall of Fame.
If you’re playing catch up, Holt who was receiving a lifetime achievement award for journalism at the Murrow Symposium said journalists don’t need to provide both sides of an issue, that fairness is “overrated” and “the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in.”
Roger Mudd, a probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon s profligate spending, whose interview with Ted Kennedy ended the senator s White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job at his onetime rival, NBC News, died March 9 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 93.
The cause was complications from kidney failure, said a son, Jonathan Mudd.
Mudd spent almost 20 years covering Capitol Hill, political campaigns and corruption scandals for CBS News. He did special reports on the Watergate scandal and its fallout, including the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Roger Mudd, Veteran CBS and NBC News Correspondent, Dies at 93
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Roger Harrison Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent and Peabody Award-winning journalist who was once seen as a potential heir to Walter Cronkite’s chair at “CBS Evening News,” died at his home in McLean, Va., on Tuesday. He was 93.
His son, Jonathan Mudd, told the Washington Post the cause of death was complications from kidney failure. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said Mudd was viewed as a “hero” in the CBS News Washington bureau.
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“He was a journalist of enormous integrity and character,” Zirinsky said in a statement. “He would not budge if he believed he was right and would not compromise his ethical standards. He was an inspiration to all of us in the bureau. On a personal note – I sat directly across from him in the D.C. newsroom – Roger was big, not just in his physical presence but he was larger than lif
This is not a year that a lot of us are probably going to want to remember. For the millions who lost loved ones to COVID-19, it is likely to be especially painful. For better or worse, many of us will never forget how our lives have changed since last March. One of the primary functions of media is to sift through the deluge of developments and events in our national life and decide which are .
David Muir to Lead Breaking-News Duties at ABC
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David Muir will start to lead breaking-news duties at ABC News, a new effort by the Walt Disney unit to rework an unorthodox arrangement involving two of its top anchors.
Under a new structure, Muir will largely handle the bulk of ABC News’ special reports and news of national importance, while George Stephanopoulos, the “Good Morning America” and “This Week” anchor may shepherd similar efforts in the morning, according to three people familiar with the matter. Since 2014, when Diane Sawyer stepped down from her tenure on “World News Tonight,” Stephanopoulos was recognized as ABC News’ “Chief Anchor,” and had led coverage of events of critical importance, presidential debates and elections. He has often been paired with Muir and Linsey Davis, an anchor who leads a program on the network’s streaming-video hub, ABC News Live. That title will no longer be utilized.