Robert MacNeil Passes Away
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Longtime broadcast journalist Robert MacNeil passed away.
MacNeil was best known as half of the MacNeil/Lehrer PBS show that started with the Watergate hearings in 1973.
Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer worked together on PBS for over twenty years, with MacNeil signing off on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour in 1995.
MacNeil was a straight-up Journalist who was known for refusing to indulge in sensationalist news practices, which were often the hallmark of American broadcast media.
When he signed off in 1995 from PBS, MacNeil thanked viewers “for the opportunity you’ve given me to work in a manner I could be proud of when I went home every night.”
In speaking about network news in 2005, MacNeil said, “I don’t know what’s going to happen. They have got fluffier and often sillier and certainly softer under the pressure from cable news. The future is a bit uncertain.”
He said those words almost 25 years ago, and it still holds true today.
Robert MacNeil was 93.
