Six years before the 9/11 attacks, discussing sensationalism and frivolity in the news business, he had said: “If something really serious did happen to the nation - a stock market crash like 1929, ... the equivalent of a Pearl Harbor - wouldn’t the news get very serious again?
Robert MacNeil, first anchor of PBS 'NewsHour' nightly newscast, dies at 93
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Jim Lehrer of the 'MacNeil-Lehrer Report' dies at 85
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