RIP Powerpoint.

RIP Pierrepoint.

Back in the 70's Pierpoint was fond of playing tennis. One time he was called at short notice for some foreign policy crisis while playing tennis and we saw him on TV as this:

But behind the scenes he was dressed like this:


He liked this shot of himself so much that he put it on the back cover of his book, and according to his family this is the outfit that he is going to be buried in.
No wonder Charles Kuralt liked him so much.

varmitydog: Back in the 70's Pierpoint was fond of playing tennis. One time he was called at short notice for some foreign policy crisis while playing tennis and we saw him on TV as this: [www.forgottenhollywood.com image 150x150]

But behind the scenes he was dressed like this:
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He liked this shot of himself so much that he put it on the back cover of his book, and according to his family this is the outfit that he is going to be buried in.
No wonder Charles Kuralt liked him so much.

Why does he have two different ties in those pics?

They'll drag him back to our plane of existence when Mt. Megiddo starts to draw crowds. We'll need good journalists there, and the mortal ones don't react too well to bullets.

Apos: Why do I feel such shame at not knowing who this intrepid journalist is/was?

Going by the shortness of the thread, few of us do know who he was. I'm 40, and don't remeber him.

I remember him - or at least the name and the voice, not as "a fan" - and shall miss the integrity that his generation of newscasting represented.

(But let's not deceive ourselves. Scum-suckers like Limbaugh have been with us always. It's just we remember "golden ages" for heights of the excellence, not the depths of the panderers.)

He was a journalist from a time when they covered the actual news and not the tabloid journalism of today.