Re: NBC's David Bloom, RIP

["Kevin Vahey" <k-vahey@attbi.com>]

As a smoker who just hit 53  <g>

Never worked with the man BUT my friends at 30 ROCK in NABET told me he 
was a great guy with the crew.

Maybe as I get older and move closer to the center I have come to 
respect NBC News in the same regard I held for CBS 30/35 years ago. It 
starts with Brokaw who nobody can tell what his views are. I can think 
of no higher praise.

Local I m finding 4 is restoring the trust and 7 is holding its own. 
WCVB is in a free fall. They banked EVERYTHING on "we are family" and it 
has backfired.

Can WCVB recover? I don't know.
Ed Ansin would let you think that news is no longer an anchor delivered 
product. To a point he is correct BUT say at Noontime people will watch 
4 because of Liz Walker.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 8:44PM -0500, Donna Halper wrote:
>
>> Chuck wrote--
>>
>> i use the word ironic in that David, as an embedded journalist, made 
>> it through
>> sandstorms and firefights and bombs and camel dung to Baghdad, only to 
>> die of
>> something that might well have happened as he stepped out of the 
>> shower at his
>> home.
>
> I totally agree-- on the other hand, like many in his field, he was a 
> heavy smoker for a long time.  Okay fine, I am not giving lectures and 
> not saying this was the reason, but being in a high stress occupation 
> and spending years smoking, hey it ain't good for your health.  All of 
> that aside, you just never know when your time is going to come.  At 
> least he died doing the thing he loved-- reporting.  Many people that 
> knew him say wonderful things about him and our industry is diminished 
> by his loss.