I began my journalism career as an unpaid student intern at The Washington Post-Newsweek owned WPLG on the heels of Watergate. succeeded by Richard Nixon, Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
I sought and achied early retirement from The Associated Press, the world's oldest nonprofit news cooperative nearly five decades later when the GOP was still running the circus.
The Republicans were in power then and they’re still in power. George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005.
During my decade long stint at NBC I watched a wonderful newscast be dismantled under White House pressure.
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NBC News Overnight was one of the smartest television news programs. Appealing to an eclectic audience of college students, nursing mothers, and late shift workers, the show broke the conventional "lowest common denominator" style of most news programs and injected humor into an otherwise seemingly boring medium, while providing news analysis of a kind usually unseen on other major-network newscasts. TIME named it one of the best programs, calling it "TV's wittiest, toughest, least snazzy news strip" and, one of the best programs of the 1980s. The duPont Columbia Awards Journalism Awards jury cited NBC News Overnight as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
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As a former writer-producer and award recipient for NBC News Overnight, GOP Administration lapdogs, passed off absurdities as if they were normal.
Only Linda, Lloyd, Bill, Herb, Deborah, Cheryl, and our overnight staff questioned everything and repeated on network TV: "Do they expect us to believe that garbage?"