When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.
Harry Reasoner Quotes
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
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| Birth: | 17th April, 1923 |
| Death: | 6th August, 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist, Newsreader |
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Harry Truman Reasoner was born in Dakota City, Iowa, USA. He was an American journalist for ABC and CBS News, known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator, and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program. He won three Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1967. He studied journalism at Stanford University and the University of Minnesota. He served in World War II and then resumed his journalism career with The Minneapolis Times. He later joined CBS News in New York, in 1958, where he eventually hosted a morning news program called Calendar from 1961 to 1963, on top of doing commentator and special news narration duties.
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