His name is Mudd
The McDonough County Voice
A man whom many consider to be a bellwether for the dominance and flash of network television news in the 1960s and 1970s died last week. Roger Mudd was 93 years old.
In one of his obituaries, the Associated Press wrote, His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-internet days when the big three networks.were the main source of news.
Roger Mudd was one of a handful of news presenters who directed my career choice as a boy. The others were Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather.
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I never got to meet legendary CBS and NBC correspondent Roger Mudd.
That’s a regret of mine.
Mudd died last week at age 93.
I always wanted to meet Mudd because he covered Congress for CBS. I read Mudd’s 2008 book The Place to Be. What intrigued me about the book were his tales about covering Congress for so many years.
I generally don’t seek out celebrities or public figures. I report on a lot of them. It’s part of the job. So I never reached out to Mudd.
But after reporting on Congress for decades, I could understand every syllable of Mudd’s book.