Tom Brokaw

Obama Nobel Speech: Reviews, Reaction (VIDEO)

Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

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Pundits are reacting to President Obama's speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. On MSNBC's Morning Joe the hosts were surprised that the president ...

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Tom Brokaw Unhurt In Fatal Car Crash (VIDEO)

Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Auto Accident, Auto Crash, Car Accident, Car Crash, Tom Brokaw, Media News

NBC News' Tom Brokaw and his wife were unharmed in a fatal three-vehicle crash in New York on Friday. The network released the following statement: T...

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WATCH: Tom Brokaw on the NBC/Comcast Deal

Liz Glover | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: NBC Universal, Comcast, Tom Brokaw, Liz Glover, Age Discrimination, Tom Brokaw Comcast, Comcast NBC, Media News
Liz Glover

Tom Brokaw talks about media responsibility, age discrimination in broadcasting and the NBC/Comcast deal.

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NBC's Brian Williams: Changing the World for the Better

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: New Orleans, White House, Council on Foreign Relations, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Bono, Thought Leaders, Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Columbia University School of Journalism, Global Citizens, Msnbc, Cnbc, Yitzhak Rabin, Jim Luce, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World., Hurricane Katrina, Nigeria, Jane Stoddard Williams, Bill Clinton, Kabul, New Canaan, Ghana, Ohio State University, Making a Difference, Paul Stevers, Bates College, Facebook, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News, HIV/AIDS, Andeisha Farid, Tom Brokaw, Mali, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Walter Cronkite, Afceco, Disease, Jimmy Carter, Afghanistan, Orphans International Worldwide, Poverty, New York News
Jim Luce

Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...

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Berlin Wall Newscasts 20 Years Later: Watch Brokaw, Jennings & Rather Report The News (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Slidepoll, Berlin Wall 20th Anniversary, Tom Brokaw, Berlin Wall 20 Years Later, Peter Jennings Berlin Wall, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather Berlin Wall, Tom Brokaw Berlin Wall, Berlin Wall, Dan Rather, Media News

Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which provides a nice opportunity to look back at the coverage of the historic event...

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Terrorist Or Activist? A Young Colombian, Gabriel Gonzalez, Fights For His Country, His Reputation (VIDEO)

Diane Tucker | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Venezuela, Colombia FARC, Human Rights First, Foreign Affairs, Terrorism, Democratic Security, Human Rights Campaign, Human Rights Abuses, Diane Tucker, Foreign Policy, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Human Rights Violations, Hillary Clinton Colombia, Human Rights, Tom Brokaw, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade, Alvaro Uribe, Gabriel Gonzales, Farc, Mexico's Drug War, Alvaro Uribe Government, Video, World News
Diane Tucker

Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Letting Our Actions Speak

Bob McKinnon | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Clinton Global Initiative, G-20 Summit, Tom Brokaw, Climate Change, Health Care, Barack Obama, G-20, Childhood Obesity, Living News
Bob McKinnon

Every generation makes an implicit promise to leave their children a better world than they themselves inherited. In America, we have been fortunate to make good on that promise for almost three hundred years.

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That's The Way It Wasn't

Sam Leff | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1968 Democratic National Convention, Tom Brokaw, 1968, Yippies, Walter Cronkite, 1968 Election, A.O. Scott, Abbie Hoffman, Politics News
Sam Leff

Some forty years after Walter Cronkite told it like it was and called the Chicago of 1968 "a police state," Tom Brokaw, A.O. Scott, and Andie Tucher told their own versions -- like it wasn't.

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The Ten Best Movies About Journalism by Farr

John Farr | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Mitchum, Pbs, Journalists, Kirk Douglas, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Jane Fonda, Billy Wilder, American Masters, Best Movies by Farr, Journalism, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Woodward, Tom Brokaw, Jack-Lemmon, Peter Jennings, Reel 13, 60 Minutes, Mel Gibson, Warren Beatty, Carl Bernstein, Walter Cronkite, Sam Waterston, Dan Rather, Peter Saarsgard, PBS Documentaries, Jason Robards, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Entertainment News
John Farr

In the wake of the revered Walter Cronkite's passing, I've attempted to isolate the ten best movies about journalism.

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The Greatest Generation Takes a Sip of Bourbon

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Baby Boomers, Greatest Generation, Chrysler, Aig, Millennial Generation, Civil Rights, Iraq War, Internet, Rebel WIthout a Cause, General Motors, Washington Mutual, Lehman Brothers, Astrology, Gay Marriage, China, Generation Y, Great Depression, Akron-Ohio, Tom Brokaw, Business News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

The significance of every generation will be examined, interpreted and reinterpreted, but in reality, the distinctions between them aren't so clear.

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My Message To Tom Brokaw: We're New Yorkers & We'll Whine If We Want To!

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Financial Crisis, Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Tom Brokaw, New York, Morning Joe, Nbc, Cannes, Living News
Lita Smith-Mines

I'm not defending excesses and greed and those who chose to live beyond their means - I'm defending New Yorkers' right to whine!

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An American Heartbreak

Norman Lear | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Auto Companies, Car Companies, Tom Brokaw, Greatest Generation, American Dream, Business News
Norman Lear

What's going on with our car companies breaks the heart of this member of the Greatest Generation. The American motor car played such a significant part in our "American Dream."

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Tom Brokaw Hitting The Road To Report On Economy For USA Network

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — NBC's Tom Brokaw never claimed he was retiring when he left "Nightly News" after the 2004 election. He's almost as visible on TV as h...

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Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" Against the Facts

Karl Frisch | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: 2008 Elections, Regnery Publishing, CBS Early Show, Liberal Media, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Media Matters for America, Media, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama 2008, Media Matters, Tom Brokaw, The Charlie Rose Show, Liberal Bias, 2008 Presidential Race, Jeff Glor, New York Times, 2008 Campaign, Media News, Election 2008, Bernard Goldberg, Media Bias, Charlie Rose, Obama, 2008 Eletion, Sacha Baron Cohen, Media News
Karl Frisch

Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.

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Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: President Obama, The Clintons, James Winborn Turner, Greatest Generation, Man on the Moon, America, 9/11, The Flag, Civil War, Democratization, Win, Reagan, Ayn Rand, American History, Texas History, Houston, Pride, Great Depression, American Nostalgia, Preemptive War, American Know How, Marines, Trickle Down, Meritocracy, Texas, Shareholder Value, Barack Obama, American Attitude, Patriotism, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam, Living News
Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

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A Wry Look-Back at the Presidential Campaign

Lea Lane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Joe the Plumber, Al Smith Dinner, President Obama, Cindy McCain, Morning Joe, Montgomery Clift, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Michelle Bachmann, Elinor Clift, Joe Scarborough, Tom Brokaw, George Will, John King, 30 Rock, Jon Stewart, Cokie Roberts, Tucker Bounds, Snl, Pat Buchanen, Arianna Huffington, Mika Brzezinski, Tina Fey, Elizabeth Dole, Bill Maher, David Letterman, Rudy Guiliani, 2008 Presidential Campaign, 2008 Presidential Election, Larry King, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Politics News
Lea Lane

Has it been only two months since the presidential campaign ended?

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Tom Brokaw Remembers Tim Russert: The John Madden Of Political Journalism

New York Times | Tom Brokaw | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media

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Dan Rather came of age wanting to be the next Edward R. Murrow, the cerebral and stylish godfather of broadcast journalism. The late Peter Jennings se...

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Is India Allowed to Attack Pakistan?

Jim Arkedis | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: Pervez Musharraf, Barak Obama, Tom Brokaw, Pakistan, Kashmir, World News
Jim Arkedis

India's military right to pursue the Mumbai attackers into Pakistan remains unquestioned. But if India chooses to exercise that right, it could be disastrous military strategy.

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Tom Brokaw Smacks Down David Gregory's Fashion Sense (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media

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It's two days old, but the clip needs to be seen: on Monday's "Morning Joe," the always sharp Tom Brokaw issued a sartorial smackdown to new "Meet the...

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Are Sunday Pundits Gone With the Wind?

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 01.10.2009 | Media

Read More: David Gregory, Meet the Press, Media, Tom Brokaw, Media Diversity, Diversity, Pundits, Sunday News, Sunday Morning, Media News
Mario Solis-Marich

Unless CBS breaks the mold we will not see a woman or person of color lead policy discussions and enjoy access to the nation's power elite on Sunday mornings for at least 25 years.

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Detroit's Next Step; Analysis of Rescue Proposal Here

Steve Parker | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: New United Motor Manufacturing, Bob Nardelli, Congress, Uaw, Meet the Press, Toyota, Pontiac Vibe Hatchbacks, Chrysler, Gm, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Barney Frank, Detroit Three, Three Tenors, Detroit Free Press, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford, Corvette, Bob Lutz, Tom Brokaw, General Motors, Detroit Three Loans, Pontiac GTO, Nancy Pelosi, Washington, Harry Reid, Pontiac G8, Detroit Bailout, Nummi, Auto Bailout, Auto Industry, Business News
Steve Parker

It's always nice to own part of any failing automotive giant from the last century, if the companies are still not viable three, six or even twelve months from now, what will taxpayers' ownership be worth?

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Tom Brokaw Talks "Meet The Press": "A Big Heartland Broadcast"

Daily Beast | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Nbc, Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw, Media News

If as many people watched Meet the Press as are obsessing over its new host, NBC could probably close down the rest of the news division. Leaks notwit...

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Finger-Pointing At NBC Over Gregory Leak

Huffington Post | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media

Read More: David Gregory, Nbc, Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, Tom Brokaw, Media News

News that David Gregory has been tipped to anchor "Meet the Press" leaked earlier this week, and since then the folks at NBC have been wondering who d...

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What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News
Mayhill Fowler

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

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