RIP Jim Lehrer

[sasquatch69 624]

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PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/remembering-jim-lehrer

I always appreciated his calm, even tone and strong intent to get the reporting right.  And, he's a Texan, at least for part of his life - he went to Victoria College in the Valley, then worked at the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald before starting a new kind of news program on KERA in Dallas called "Newsroom" - which eventually morphed into the national MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour that lasted for many years (and is still on today as "PBS Newshour".

[RPM 26570]

A true journalist. I used to watch Newsroom. It was dry as toast, but dug into stories unlike anyone else in DFW.

[jeevsie 3781]

4 hours ago, sasquatch69 said:

Victoria College in the Valley

Prepare thy anus

[TwiceHorn 31996]

I have always appreciated KERA.  I did not know the Monty Python story until recently.  Really a groundbreaking and important station.

[formermav43 4607]

2 hours ago, jeevsie said:

Prepare thy anus

I’m sure he meant the famed Guadalupe River valley.

[RomaVicta 30508]

McNeil Lehrer was maybe the last great news team to anchor a show. Nice long life. RIP

[Kringelbert Fishtybuns 945]

I never realized he wrote the novel Viva Max!  I’m going to have to give it a read, as the movie was pretty solid.

[Paco 1953]

One of my favorite quotes was from Jim Lehrer, on what he learned Marine boot camp: (something like) "Marines never leave behind our wounded or our dead, officers always eat last. The army is chickenshit in combat, the navy is worse, and the air force is barely even on our side"

Semper Fi Sir.