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WCAU NBC 10's Edie Huggins Dies At 72

How disgraceful. A Philly broadcast icon passes, 42 tears on the air...forty-two...and not a word. Ch 10's groundbreaking reporter, Miss Edie paseses, and CH 3 at 4pm was broadcasting a story about a freakin' parrot that wouldn't come doewn from a tree!

Meanwhile, Ch 10 shows pics of Edie Huggins with John Facenda, Donald Barhouse, Tommy Brookshire, and others, while the bubble-headed bleach blond on 3 rattles about a host for an entertainment show on Ch 11.

In fact, Ch 3's own Trudy Hanes was being interviewed on Ch 10 about Edie, while nher own station ignored the historic roles the both played in getting people of color, yet alone women, on the air in TV. Ch 6 meanwhile led with the earthquake and Eagles at 5. Just such a disappointment and a pall on the judgement of Philadelphia's newsrooms and Broadcasting.

Does anyone at Ch 3 or 6 even know that every female and every person of color owes their job to Edie Huggins and Trudy Hanes? How ignorant. How arrogant. How sad.
 
Channel 6 covered this story last night (I did not watch the 5:00 or 6:00 broadcasts), and they had the story running on their bottom scroll this morning.
 
Just for the record, AM, Ukee Washington did mention her passing at the end of the 12:00 news on Ch 3 yesterday, just prior to signoff. Could they have done more? Certainly, but perhaps they didn't have enough time to put a piece together before signoff.
 
The loss of an absolute pro. Edie was also one of the nicest people in or out of the business.
 
Thanks for the correction dusty. Anyone catch SNL last weekend? A repeat, of course. They opened with a mocking of CNN and today's newsroom priorities using the rediculous excess coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's death as an example.

And while I'm bitching about omisions, I don't want to forget to note a nice farewell to Robin McIntosh and a wonderful career at KYW. 1968-2008...a nice run! From Vince Leonard to Larry Kane to some short-lived good and other forgettables, he always stood out as one of Philly's best street reporters.
 
Sam Lit said:
Wow, real life reduced to a lower screen letter crawl.
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To be clear, though, it was not just an on-screen crawl, it was covered in the broadcast. Adding it to their headline crawl is not all they did.
 
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