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Roger Mudd, the CBS newsman whose political reporting and substitute anchoring on “The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite” made him a familiar and respected face to tens of millions of Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. He was 93.
“Roger was a hero in the CBS News Washington bureau,” said Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer of CBS News. “He was a journalist of enormous integrity and character. He would not budge if he believed he was right and would not compromise his ethical standards. He was an inspiration to all of us in the bureau. On a personal note — I sat directly across from him in the D.C. newsroom — Roger was big, not just in his physical presence but he was larger than life.” More
Perhaps the greatest service Roger Mudd ever rendered to the nation. Watch
We used to trust these guys to report the news. Now I wouldn’t trust reports of Mr. Mudd’s death if reported on CBS/NBC/ABC unless we saw the body. RIP, Roger Mudd.
He was worthy of respect
He was passed over for Tom Brokaw and that pretty much ended any semblance of fairness in the media.
He didn’t take Ted Kennedy out of the Presidential picture, Kennedy’s ineptness took himself out.
I hear his ancestor (physician) attended John Wilkes Booth following the Lincoln assassination.
Mary Jo Kopechne and Roger Mudd’s simple question kept Teddy Kennedy out of the White House. He was the Lion of the Senate and the Lying, Cheating, Cowardly Dog of Chappaquiddict.
WHY do I want to be President?
To score HOT CHICKS! Like Jack! 😳 😳 😳