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Commemoration: Ed Bradley; Died Nov. 9, 2006, his job done...
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Quasimodo

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/television/10bradley.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=todayspaper&adxnnlx=1163169712-F69jkMJOFZS8kcLjQMu%200A

Ed Bradley, TV Correspondent, Dies at 65

By JACQUES STEINBERG

Published: November 10, 2006

Ed Bradley, a fixture in American living rooms on Sunday nights for a quarter century as a correspondent on “60 Minutes” and one of the first black journalists prominently featured on network television, died yesterday in Manhattan. He was 65.
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Quasimodo

http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2006/11/ed-bradley-of-60-minutes-dies.html

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 2006

Ed Bradley of '60 Minutes' Passes


Today, we were saddened to hear of the passing of a man of great respect and dignity - Ed Bradley. He leaves a legacy of fairness and objectivity that extended to the last days of his life.

His stature and importance at CBS was enormous. Reports tell us that Mr. Bradley had been sick for some time. That gives his decision to choose the Duke Hoax as the final reporting contribution of his amazing career even more meaning. In the last days of his life, he chose to focus on the injustice and indignity of the treatment of three young men by what passes for justice in Durham, North Carolina today. He chose this story to be a capstone to his formidable legacy.

Mr. Bradley lent his name and reputation as his life drew to a close, to those principles that underscored all he practiced and achieved: color-blind equality before the law and unwavering standards of justice for all our children, regardless of the color of their skin or the content of their" Daddies' pockets." He did not differentiate or discriminate. He looked beyond skin color to the content of the law.

Today, we salute and remember Ed Bradley for all his many lifetime achievements and his final one,as a true Hero Of the Hoax.
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Quasimodo

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Ed Bradley didn't have get involved in this case. No one would have thought any less of him if he would have just stayed home and spent time his family. Ed obviously loved his work enough to continue to work up until his death. I will never forget that one of the last things Mr. Bradley did was expose a corrupt DA and lying hooker for what they are. I only wish more people in the media had integrity Ed had. God bless you Ed Bradley, you will be missed.


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Front page of the NY Times today- article about Ed Bradley- see the end of the story for his commitment to the Duke Lacrosse story.

“I think people might want to characterize him as a trailblazer for black journalists,” she said yesterday, by cellphone from outside Mr. Bradley’s hospital room just after his death. “I think he’d be proud of that. But I think Ed was a trailblazer for good journalism. Period.”

In the weeks before his final hospitalization, Mr. Bradley had been scrambling to finish the Duke report in particular, while fending off what would become the early stages of pneumonia.

“He just kept hitting the road,” Ms. Hunter-Gault said. “Every time I talked to him, he was tired. I’d say, ‘Why don’t you go home and rest?’ He’d say, ‘I just want to get this piece done.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/television/10bradley.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=todayspaper
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jarms

Human virtue comes in all professions and political persuasions. This is a good thing to remember as we conveniently classify people into "demographic groups" in order to simplify the process of sorting out the good guys from the bad guys.

"Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

Simone Weil
In Gravity and Grace, 1997, page 120.
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