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EDWIN NEWMAN, RIP

The Voice of Reason said:
If Edwin Newman was to apply for a television job today it is very likely he wouldn't be hired because Mr. Newman would be overqualified.
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Either overqualified and/or not sexy enough or even a lack of friends on Facebook. Actually pretty much anyone from back in the day such as Newman, Cronkite, even the radio greats as well such as the Real Don Steele or Robert W. Morgan could never break into the biz today.

On the other hand, would they even want to? The news businesses of course has changed a lot since their days in so many different ways like the number of people now who get their news online. True Yahoo & MSN does news but often comments following the news make news themselves such the recent news story about 13,000 people applying for jobs at Phoenix area McDonalds only for the news sites to receive comments from such places as Dallas, Denver Raleigh and Indianapolis by those who were so upset at the high number number of people applying for fast food jobs they were considering killing themselves even though this was a PHOENIX story, not Indianapolis. You would never see this sort of thing back during Edwin Newman's heyday.
 
Sorry I'm late to the party, but when I learned of Newman's death, I had no idea he'd still been living (same with Art Clokey [Gumby] and Mitch Miller).

RIP, Mr. Newman.

ixnay
 
We've got to remember one thing in all our lamentation: Newman retired all the way back in 1984. Over 25 years of water has gone under the bridge, so to speak, since then. It is certain that the industry then did not even remotely resemble that of the late 1950s, when Newman was a correspondent for The Huntley-Brinkley Report. In the 1950s, news was only seen two or three times a day, with newsreels, an anchor seated in front of a plain backdrop, and little, if any, commentary. By 1984, CNN had started up, delivering a steadily-growing crack in the Big Three's armor (in the Fifties, it was really the Big Two, with ABC not then a major player in the news race). The grave but calm voices of the past were already seeing the writing on the wall then.

What is clear, though, is that satellite and cable planted the seeds of the 24/7, wall-to-wall news culture we have today, a goodly 15 years or so before most people heard of the Internet. What is going on today may well just be the terminal stage of a long process that simply confirms Marshall McLuhan's (whom Newman interviewed, coincidentally, several times) well-worn adage: "The medium is the message." While that may have debatable in the Sixties when it first became a slogan, no one, even Rupert Murdoch, would deny it with a straight face today.
 
Ix,
You should Google "Who's Living and Who's Dead." Very good website that help. Google solves lots of problems.
 
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