Experts agree the great days of US news broadcasting are long gone, but this week still brought poignant reminders
As Tennyson – and Withnail’s Uncle Monty – had it, the old order changeth, yielding place to new. Larry King, whose death was announced on Saturday, was not the only giant of US TV news to leave the scene this week.
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Continue reading...The CNN host had a profound effect on American broadcasting – and the heart of the brand was 7,445 editions of Larry King Live over 25 years
A measure of Larry King’s impact on American television journalism was that for three decades, the easiest way of giving fictional cinematic politicians credibility was a scene in which they appeared on King’s CNN show.
His peak year was 1998, in which King, who has died aged 87, shared the big screen with John Travolta as a minimally disguised Bill Clinton in Primary Colors, Warren Beatty as a maverick Democrat senator in Bulworth, and Will Smith in the conspiracy surveillance thriller Enemy of the State.
Continue reading...Broadcaster and celebrity interviewer had been hospitalized in Los Angeles with symptoms of coronavirus
Larry King, the American broadcaster and cable news interviewer of celebrities and public figures, has died. He was 87 and had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles with symptoms of the coronavirus.
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Continue reading...The 87-year-old is reportedly being treated at the Cedar-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles after contracting coronavirus
Veteran talk show host Larry King, 87, is being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for Covid-19, according to multiple US reports. CNN, his employer for many years, said he had been in hospital for a week.
“Larry has fought so many health issues in the last few years and he is fighting this one hard too, he’s a champ,” ABC News reported a source close to the family as saying, after the story was originally reported in a showbiz column.
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