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Article: David Brinkley, 82, the elder statesman of American TV news OBITUARY

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David Brinkley, whose pungent news commentaries, delivered with a mixture of wry skepticism and succinct candor, set the standard for U.S. network television for generations, died at his home in Houston late Wednesday. He was 82. Brinkley died from complications after a fall, Jeffrey Schneider, vice president of ABC News, his former employer, told Reuters on Thursday without elaborating. Brinkley liked to say that he had ''done the news longer than anyone on earth.'' He summed up his career as the subtitle of his 1995 memoir, ''David Brinkley: 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, One Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on ...

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