Phil Donahue
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He was 88.
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The journalist pioneered the modern format of issue-based daytime talk shows featuring audience participation. His show would become one of the most influential programs of its time, with Donahue winning nine Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding host.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/phil-donahue-talk-show-host-pioneer-dies-rcna129601[^]:rose:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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He was 88.
Quote:
The journalist pioneered the modern format of issue-based daytime talk shows featuring audience participation. His show would become one of the most influential programs of its time, with Donahue winning nine Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding host.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/phil-donahue-talk-show-host-pioneer-dies-rcna129601[^]:rose:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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He was 88.
Quote:
The journalist pioneered the modern format of issue-based daytime talk shows featuring audience participation. His show would become one of the most influential programs of its time, with Donahue winning nine Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding host.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/phil-donahue-talk-show-host-pioneer-dies-rcna129601[^]:rose:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Yeah, not a good format.
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I was never a fan of his show. IMO it was one of the first to trivialize (and then politicize) serious social topics and pit people against each other for ratings. A pre-cursor to today's gotcha "journalism" practiced by so many. :|
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He was 88.
Quote:
The journalist pioneered the modern format of issue-based daytime talk shows featuring audience participation. His show would become one of the most influential programs of its time, with Donahue winning nine Daytime Emmy Awards for outstanding host.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/phil-donahue-talk-show-host-pioneer-dies-rcna129601[^]:rose:
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Most people are talking about his legacy as a TV Host. It doesn't paint the full picture, and it's not the most flattering aspect of his life. Phil Donahue was vocally anti-war, and brought his voice to places like MSNBC, where he kept showing up with other anti-war guests back when MSNBC was owned in part by GE (a premier American arms dealer, for anyone not keeping up) and everyone was going all in on the Iraq war. There was a memo leaked after he got fired from NBC that his anti-war views made him "difficult" for the network. Good. And if the memo suggests anything, it's that he was principled about it. He probably wasn't surprised it at least in part, cost him his job, I'm guessing. I have to respect that. I hope this post wasn't too political. I'm not even a cable news buff. I haven't had any meaningful TV in my house since the late 1990s, but I do remember snatches of what was happening at the time.
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Most people are talking about his legacy as a TV Host. It doesn't paint the full picture, and it's not the most flattering aspect of his life. Phil Donahue was vocally anti-war, and brought his voice to places like MSNBC, where he kept showing up with other anti-war guests back when MSNBC was owned in part by GE (a premier American arms dealer, for anyone not keeping up) and everyone was going all in on the Iraq war. There was a memo leaked after he got fired from NBC that his anti-war views made him "difficult" for the network. Good. And if the memo suggests anything, it's that he was principled about it. He probably wasn't surprised it at least in part, cost him his job, I'm guessing. I have to respect that. I hope this post wasn't too political. I'm not even a cable news buff. I haven't had any meaningful TV in my house since the late 1990s, but I do remember snatches of what was happening at the time.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
He was also quite a liberal, but now most of Congress are neocons. Sic transit gloria.
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