RIP Edwin Newman (NBC)

[BNWriter]

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/16/local/la-me-edwin-newman-20100916

I looked and looked and looked but didn't see this obit anywhere on the site, so if it already here feel free to delete.

I always wondered why he made such a fuss about the English language going down hill, but now, seeing how it is careening around a corner after going down the hill, I sort of understand why he wrote two books to try to save it. RIP.

 

[mpcincal]

I remember seeing him on NBC News all the time, like those prime-time newsbreaks, another quaint relic of the past.

I also remember his cameo in "Spies Like Us."

Also, one thing that always stuck in my mind. Sometime in the '80s, there was this NBC sitcom (forget the name) about a couple with a teen son that ran a daycare center. Anyway, one episode had a scene where the son told his friend he tried to butter up the dad by telling him how hip he was. The following exchange:

"You're dad's not hip."
"Well, he's hipper than your dad."
"Edwin Newman is hipper than my dad."

 

[D-3 Fan]

I liked Newman a lot. Growing up and watching NBC News in the 80's, I considered Chancellor, Roger Mudd, and Newman as statesmen of the news. You knew it was important when they started talking.

RIP Mr. Newman.

 

[terrier]

If you can find "Sunday Punch," check it out. Fun little novel he wrote in the '80s about a great intellect-turned-champion boxer.

 

[Drip]

The day JFK was killed he said it was a gunshot wound to the chest.
Neverthless, RIP to a great journalist.