David Broder Died Yesterday And Hardly Anyone Noticed

[Me.]

The so called dean of journalism, a big muckety muck who was always being quoted, died and barely a mention. There's a lesson in this for all the egos who have been stomping on the rights of everyone else to suit their own purposes.

[gateley]

1. I wasn't familiar with him, but it sounds as though he was a wonderful person

who contributed a lot. May he rest in peace.

PS -- Maybe you could just announce he'd died instead of chastising others for not taking notice. Maybe they weren't aware?

[Me.]

5. I Wasn't Chastising Anyone

And you completely missed the point I was making.

[gateley]

7. My mistake then -- sorry --

EDIT -- just went back and re-read -- NOW I get it. Talk about jumping to conclusions! :blush: Again, sorry!

[Me.]

9. No Harm No Foul

[LaurenG]

2. NPR did a nice piece on him. The journalists Journalist..

[TBF]

3. He definitely merits more threads than Sheen the destructive machine,

he was an excellent writer. Also very middle of the road, pragmatic centrist - which I do find admirable in a journalist (especially in these days of FAUX news). A nod to Mr. Broder, may he RIP.

[jillan]

4. That is so sad - I didn't even hear about it.

I'll have to google about it to learn what happened :(

[RockaFowler]

6. NBC Nightly News did a piece last night

It was rather nice, but they could have done more. I mean he was on Meet the Press a ton in the 90's and before.

[hlthe2b]

8. There were a half dozen threads yesterday... good and bad..

Most of them were simply acknowledgments of his passing. Did you search on the topic? I have included links to two (below)

I detested his politics, but he was among the last of the "old school" Republicans that I could generally tolerate and seemed to have some journalistic ethics, unlike much of the new crop that spews RW messaging nonstop. That said, it is true that he pushed for us to undertake an unprovoked war with Iran. That alone is pretty detestable, though I try to look at the man in his totality.

As for him being the "dean" of the media... that honor actually rested with the late Daniel Schorr--who earned it for his long long years, first under Edward Murrow at CBS and then for NPR. RWers and neocons tried to embue that title on the more "acceptable" Broder, who, unlike Schorr was NOT on Nixon's enemies list.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4762438

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x594928