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WNBC News Anchor Chuck Scarborough Signs Off After 50-Year Run From Nixon To Trump 2.0
While Scarborough, 81, hadn't exactly kept his retirement plans a secret, the goodbye no doubt came as unwelcome news to many loyal viewers.
Over the years at WNBC, Scarborough worked with colleagues Marv Albert, Len Berman, Jack Cafferty, Dr. Frank Field, Pat Harper, Pia Lindstrom, Sue Simmons, Al Roker, and Tom Snyder, among others. In this age of algorithms and cable channels herding the citizenry into like-minded silos of A.I., and social media fictions suffocating truth, it has never been more important to do what they do so well: hue to the basic principles of accuracy, objectivity and fairness. I’m going to leave you with a final thought I shared with my NBC colleagues earlier this year when they gathered in the Rainbow Room to celebrate my 50th anniversary with the National Broadcasting Company – itself a quintessential American success story, founded by a Russian immigrant named David Sarnoff, who began by selling newspapers at age 15 to help support his struggling family.
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