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Article: Brinkley, credited as a founding father of TV news, dies at 82.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2003
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Byline: Steve Johnson
CHICAGO _ David Brinkley once derided his newscast's trademark signoff as "contrived, artificial and slightly silly," but in this context, it is almost impossible not to say it: Good night, David.
Brinkley, one of the founding fathers of television news and, with his clipped, sardonic delivery, one of the most original voices the medium has seen, died Wednesday night at age 82 in his Houston home of complications from a fall.
A household name almost from the instant he paired with Chet Huntley in 1956 to deliver the news for NBC, the North Carolina native gave television news "character and he gave it personality," said ...