Ed Bradley Dead: “It Is Not Possible To Overstate How Important He Was” For A Generation Of Black Journos

By Brian 

NBC’s Ron Allen writes on MSNBC.com:

  …While we mourn his passing and chronicle his extraordinary achievements as a reporter, it is not possible to overstate how important he was, and will continue to be, for a generation of African American journalists like myself. He was, simply put, ‘the man,’ and many of us dared dream that one day we could maybe, just maybe, achieve just a bit of what he had.

While there have been and continue to be influential black journalists — Max Robinson, Hal Walker, Bernie Shaw, Bryant Gumbel, Jacqueline Adams and Carole Simpson, to name just a few — Ed was the dean of that club…

 

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