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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