Substance and Style
I will miss David Brinkley. I never met him, never knew him, and have no insight into what he was like behind the scenes, but I can imagine.I'm not an expert in politics, world affairs, or societal trends, but I am interested in all those things. In fact, these topics have become a passion of mine, integral to my daily life. David Brinkley introduced me to this world. He didn't pretend to be an expert on any of these things (unlike modern day anchors who wax faux-intellectual with words they just learned 2 seconds earlier from the teleprompter). You don't have to be an expert to have ask valuable, intelligent, and thoughtful questions.
He was real and honest and funny, ...and unreplaceable.
Sam Donaldson remembers him in this interview.
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