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Article: 'BRINKLEY'S BEAT' LACKS DEPTH.(EDITORIAL)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- January 2, 2004
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Byline: Judie Kleinmaier
"Brinkley's Beat" reads like a book written by a TV newsman. It's short and sweet and highlights some interesting anecdotes, but there's no depth.
David Brinkley, who died in June 2003, became one of our nation's best-known broadcasters as half of the team that delivered NBC's "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" starting in 1956. This 204-page book is divided into three sections - people, places and events - in which Brinkley tells stories from five decades of covering our nation's politicians and major events.
In a book that devotes three pages to the infamous Sen. Joseph McCarthy, 12 pages to Lyndon Baines Johnson, and four ...