One of the Old School Journalists

has died. David Brinkley, best known for being co-anchor with Chet Huntley in the Huntley-Brinkley newscast and also host of This Week before it turned into yet another mediocre Sunday gabfest, has died at the age of 82.

His career spanned something like fifty years. He was one of the last of the true television journalists, though he was definitely opinionated but in a way that was entertaining.

I recall many years ago when Brinkley did a series on his nightly newscast about the best towns in the United States to live. He named Ashland, Oregon, close to my hometown of Medford, as one of the best to live. Which is true, but it was probably best left secret. Today the town is little more than a rich man's town, with the average cost of real estate about as high as Reno's and maybe even higher.

Anyway, it's sad to see another great one gone.