Jerry Nachtman died last night: MSNBC

[kerry-is-my-prez]

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[lancdem]

1. I didn't know he was ill

That's sad.

[mmonk]

2. I'll miss him

[diamondsoul]

3. Err- Pardon my ignorance,

but who was he??

[DemBones DemBones]

6. He was MSNBC's news manager -- or some sort of manager-- and

used to do a news commentary sort of show right before Donahue. He was a big fat guy with a really dound face, bald, smoked big cigars (shown in promo photos; he didn't smoke on the air.) Old time news guy image.

After his cancer was diagnosed (or recurred???), his show had subs for a while -- and then I quit watching Donahue and MSNBC.

Nachtman was kind of cool and it was sad to hear he had cancer. I knew it must be bad and occasionally have remembered him, wondered how he was doing.

Sorry to hear he didn't make it. :-(

[bearfartinthewoods]

7. previously, managing news editor of MSNBC

or some succh title. last summer he hosted a half hour show on same channel until a health issue and poor ratings.

i liked him alot. he had a mikey spillane thing going on but it came off as OK, some how.

just a regular guy kind of image.

[Blue_Roses]

4. Wow

that came from out of nowhere!:wow:

[bearfartinthewoods]

5. hardly...

he was off the air for months due to his health. just beginning to return as a 'guest' in the last six weeks or so.

[edzontar]

8. He had been very ill...and was no friend of our party...

But I give my condolences to his family.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. That's sad news.

:cry:

[Jerseycoa]

10. Gee

He was just getting around again. Sad.

[liberalnurse]

11. I shared a post or reply here back in around September....

he looked ill. I asked if he had a physical exam or had he been diagnosed with cancer. He had obviously lost weight, color was pasty, looked sullen for a "heavy" man.

Oh whooo....did I call that or what?

[MrBenchley]

12. Wow...

That IS sad, but he was just a terrible journalist...he edited Rupert Murdoch's NY Post, then went to WCBS-TV in NYC where he managed to miss both the storm of the century (there was more than a foot of snow on the ground before the station broadcast an alert) and Princess Diana's death (rumor had it that CBS chairman Larry Tisch got out of bed in the middle of the night and stormed into the newsroom to find out why every other channel had coverage but not his local affiliate).

[West Coast Democrat]

13. God, I hated Nachman!!

and I probably wished more than once that he just keel over. My bad!!