Brokaw Keeps Saying Yes

“Tom Brokaw Reports,” including Tuesday night’s special on NBC, “represents only a fraction” of Tom Brokaw‘s post-‘Nightly’ professional life,” Newsday says, adding it all up: “Brokaw did a considerable amount of reporting and commentary on the midterm elections for NBC News. He’s working on a book about the tumultuous 1960s tentatively titled ‘Boom.’ There’s another doc in the works for NBC and Discovery Channel (the last Discovery one was on global warming) while a trip to Rwanda for the International Rescue Committee is also planned. Speaking engagements, like the recent one at Pearl Harbor, are too numerous to count, and so are the honoraria, which just keep piling up.

That’s right: Old anchormen don’t fade away. They just keep getting awards and giving speeches.” He even admits he says “yes” to too many offers. More…