Cokie Roberts of ABC and NPR died yesterday. 75. Complications from breast cancer.
Even though Roberts had a rich and powerful Washington pedigree, she had an "everywoman" quality about her. Approachability. She made the complex simple, and that's a rare gift.
Sander Vanocur also died this week. 91. He worked for NBC and ABC, before he retired in 1991. Political expert. In fact, Vanocur was in the panel for the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960.
He was the definition of "gravitas" and a former NBC executive called Sander Vanocur the "best political reporter he ever worked with." When Sander Vanocur said something, you believed it, and that's a rare trait these days.
