Friday, March 27, 2009 - 6:54 pm
In 1955, Irving R. Levine was, for a time, the only American radio and television correspondent in the Soviet Union.
The Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-irving-levine28-2009mar28,0,6211113 .story
Friday, March 27, 2009 - 7:34 pm
I really liked his reporting on NBC News. He did an excellent job. If memory serves, one of his last reports on NBC Nightly News was playing a little basketball with Shaquille O'Neill. Good stuff.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 8:43 pm
Mr. Levine is another of the great generation of Radio/TV Reporters who understood the difference between Reporting and Commenting on the news, and how to properly research a story. Hopefully the lines between the two which have blurred in the past few years will become clearer.
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 9:47 am
Irving R. Levine did the bow tie justice. Not many people these days can pull that off.
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 12:22 pm
I remember watching Levine's reports while growing up, back in the 1980s. It is too bad that I was too young to appreciate the journalistic integrity of his work back then. It is even worse that back then, I took TV news and newspapers for granted, never thinking that journalism would one day decline to its present status. The difference between old-timers like Levine and what largely passes for "journalism" today is that guys like Levine cared about TRUTH.
