[BC] Frank Stanton is dead

Scott Fybush scott
Mon Dec 25 23:10:34 CST 2006


Brew wrote:
>> I'd certainly put Brown before Stanton if I were stacking the show
>> tonight, too. But...just 25 seconds, especially on a slow news day, for
>> the man who arguably did more than anyone to ensure that there even IS
>> such a thing as the "CBS Evening News"? Good heavens...
> 
> 
> I stand corrected.  Russ Mitchell's intro to the piece was 25 seconds, the
> whole story was about three minutes or so.   I misread the run down.

And I'm glad to hear it!

The piece was well done, with lots of nice archival footage.

We didn't have an NBC Nightly News here tonight (football), and I didn't 
see anything about Stanton while flipping over to ABC World News between 
breaks...

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