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GREAT MOMENTS IN THE WASHINGTON POST'S NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE TO AVOID USING THE WORD 'LIE' WHEN WRITING OF GEORGE BUSH
President's Evasion Raises Truth Issues - Washington Post headline
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HOW ED BRADLEY GOT STARTED IN NEWS
RICHARD PRINCE - In [an] interview with RTNDA's Communicator, [Bradley]
recalled how he got into the business after graduating from Cheyney
State University in 1964. He taught sixth grade for three and a half
years.
"I guess it was over a year that I worked for no pay and when they did
start paying me, I think I made about a dollar. It was either a dollar
and a quarter or a dollar and a half; whatever the minimum wage was,
that's where I was. But you know, I always said that no one else on my
block was on the radio, and it was fun. I knew that God put me on this
earth to be on the radio.
"I did anything that would get me on the air. And I realized that there
was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. It got me
into the games for free, and it got me on the air reporting on the
games, the fights, things like that. And when Cheyney was in the middle
of what became, I think, a 52-game winning streak over two seasons, I
convinced the station that it should broadcast the games and that they
should let me cover them. I had no experience with broadcasting
basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground
where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands
and I called the game. Then I went home, listened to the tape, and I
said, 'Hell, I can do that.'"
He was asked whether his big break came during a riot.
"It was '64 or '65. I had had no training as a journalist and I used to
listen to the CBS News hourly reports. That was my classroom. I would
listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it
sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on
CBS News.
"So I heard this reporter talking about a riot that was going on and I
realized that he was a Philadelphia reporter. Then he signed off and I
said, 'Wow, that's North Philly.'
"So I went up there, saw what was going on, called the station and they
said, 'Well, you know, do something and we'll put you on the air.' So I
just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did
reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up
the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy. Then I
learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the
microphone in the studio. I had never been out covering a story, but
boy, was that fun. When I came back to the station, the general manager
said, 'Look, why don't you go back out there and cover it?' And they
gave me a tape recorder and I just went out and covered it."
Then he went to New York's WCBS.
"I came to WCBS in 1967. During the interview, they asked if I could
send in an actuality. I wasn't sure what actuality was, but I couldn't
let them know that. So I said, 'Well, just how do you mean?
Specifically, what would you like?'
And they said, 'Any actuality, anyone you've interviewed for stories.
Just send us the air pieces.' So I now know what actuality is. At that
point I was FM program director and I was doing a five- or six-hour
music show, so I wasn't really doing news anymore. I knew I had no
actuality and I said, 'You know, we're a small station, and we don't
save tape, so I don't have anything to send you, but why don't you give
me a tape recorder and I'll get you some actuality here?'"
"Ed Joyce, who was the news director, said they thought I was a little
crazy, but they gave me a tape recorder, and I went out and I found a
story - I read the paper and found a story. And part of the reason I got
the job was because of the initiative I showed. Ed told me later,
because of that, when reporters would come from out of town to interview
for jobs, they would give them a tape recorder and look on the day book
and say, 'Here's a news conference,' or, 'Here's a demonstration, here's
a story, go cover it.' And then they could see just what that person
could do right there. So I was always real proud of that."
http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/061109_prince/
ED BRADLEY VIDEO AND ORAL HISTORY
http://www.maynardije.org/programs/history/index/020211_start/ed_bradley/
ED BRADLEY CBS VIDEO
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2167518n
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60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley dies
Viewers and colleagues mourn veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley, who died of leukemia on Thursday at the age of 65. Bradley won 19 Emmy Awards during his 25 seasons with 60 Minutes.
Romenesko has a roundup of reactions to Bradley's passing.
Tagged as: death, journalist, ed bradley
Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.
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