I’m old enough to have watched her on the Today Show. She had a long and successful career in a field and time when the deck was stacked against women, so good on her. Still, the truth is her legacy is the acceleration of the slide of News toward Entertainment. Her real skill I suppose was booking big name guests to interview, which is a component of journalism; but she didn’t do as much with that access as one might expect from even an average journalist.
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