I watched the news as I made dinner, and then "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" and tears

[NotHardUp1]

Gwen Ifill died today. I had no idea she had cancer. She had worked until very recently. I probably trusted her MORE than Walter Cronkite and she talked politics like a true insider.

What a terrible loss. She lost a fight with cancer at only age 61.

A great light has gone out.

I hope you are singing your heart out up there. God bless you, Gwen.

 

[Cormac135]

I've never heard of the lady.

61 is no age nowadays.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I have to agree. Gwen Ifill was a truly great journalist.

 

[Telstra]

Oh she died?
Saw her on the "News hour" on SBS TV all the time.

 

[roadtripboy]

Amazing woman. Great Journalist. The world is less without her.

 

[chrisrobin]

When I heard the news, I became very sad too. She was a "real" journalist in the world of "infotainment." She will be missed.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Gwen Ifill died today. I had no idea she had cancer. She had worked until very recently. I probably trusted her MORE than Walter Cronkite and she talked politics like a true insider.

What a terrible loss. She lost a fight with cancer at only age 61.

A great light has gone out.

I hope you are singing your heart out up there. God bless you, Gwen.

Unless you are a follower of News on Public Broadcasting Service, (PBS) or National Public Radio, (NPR), Gwen Ifill may not be familiar to you. Gwen and I are like old friends, I remember Gwen from her first appearance on Washington Week in Review.

Gwen Ifill was always upbeat even when the News was, well - you know!

I've been going back in time to a point when Gwen's health began to cause her to spend less time as moderator of PBS's flagship news broadcast: Washington Week.

While the signs are not obvious, Gwen's appearance slowly changed from 2013.

Yet Gwen's wonderful personality shines through. I hope you guys take a moment to see Gwen at the top of her game at making Washington Week one of the most popular of all PBS News shows.

Rest In Peace Gwen Ifill

 

[pat grimshaw]

Sharon Jones has also crossed the bourne.

 

[Yooper]

A longtime friend and colleague of hers, Michel Martin, had this tribute on NPR today.

Very well said.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/20/50279...fill-a-speaker-of-truth-with-a-megawatt-smile

 

[nycguydowntown]

Great news woman---class act. This form of cancer seems to take black woman. May she rest in peace. Real news may be dead anyway---and maybe she is one of the last greats.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Great news woman---class act. This form of cancer seems to take black woman. May she rest in peace. Real news may be dead anyway---and maybe she is one of the last greats.

Although I hope not, I have to wonder.

The show is so much worse today than it was one and two decades ago. It's coverage is neither remarkable nor its anchors particularly good at drawing the viewer in to any deeper analysis.

It's like looking at modern Egypt and wondering how their ancestors built wonders of the world but they have deteriorated to the nation and people they are today.

Faded glory indeed.

 

[rareboy]

Most 'news' shows now have no real journalism and some of those I used to respect now seem hollowed out and cynical.

 

[NotHardUp1]

There is too much telling witnesses and interviewees what they felt or surely experienced, and idiotic limitations on prominent guests, including ambassadors and heads fo state, due to only having 30 seconds left, or similar. They are not broadcast live, so cutting off guests so they can progress to the story about poodle groomers being underrepresented in whatever is more than aggravating. Let notables speak to the topic they were invited to address, and edit as you will, but stop cutting people off as if they had to conform to Twitter's attention spans.

I will say that Margaret Hoover does a decent job on Firing Line, even if the show is a pale ghost of what it was under Buckley. There isn't any debate air about it any more, but she does ask direct questions and allows guests to fully answer. And she's not outright antagonistic in the way Meet the Press has been for over a decade. And her guests are current and relevant, not marginal.

 

[rareboy]

I don't watch Firing Line much now and found MTP increasingly unwatchable.

Watching CNN gradually destroy itself has been disheartening, but none of the big network news organizations have really stepped up to the plate either.

Same in Canada...we don't even watch televised news now, preferring to read facts and opinions in more depth than a 30 second sound bite designed to outrage someone, somewhere, about something. Or nothing.