American Broadcast Legend Larry King Has Died.

[andy-hughes]

RIP Larry.

[Rosie29]

Ome of his quotes was - Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening .
I rather like that. RIP Larry.

[Zacs-Master]

Never heard of the man.

[Spicerack]

Shame. I liked him.

[andres]

Never heard of him.

[anneasquith]

CNN have just broadcasted a short programme about LK, what an interesting man/ life he had .

[piggynose]

Never heard of him, apparently he died of The Virus.

[Khandro]

RIP, but Larry always looked as if he might make it through each broadcast.

[roopower]

I'm sorry, but what's the point of putting 'never heard of him' on a post like this.

[Mozz71]

If people don't recognised his name, maybe his face is better known. He was basically the American David Frost.

[237SJ]

Larry King Live. That stalwart of CNN programmes that you watch when you crash out in your bed, completely knackered, on the other side of the world. I`m glad he had such a long life. RIP Larry.

[Peter Pedant]

// So if I'm going to learn I must do it by listening .//
clearly not a AB stalwart

itch, JIm and Barmaid stand out as beacons

Larry K came from a generation that was far too revered by the punters - like walter cronkite
who thought that if he knelt in front of Ayatollah Kh, the old boy wd release the American hostages
I mean god where DO they get ideas sich as these from?

Did book reviews but didnt read the books!
Sally Sue someone tried that as well - - and lost her job !
Big tv deal one day and working the local barbie bar tables the next

onlyy in America !

[Peter Pedant]

// Never heard of him, apparently he died of The Virus.//
sort of like Dimbleby senr

and was more believed than the sitting liar of a president - nixon possibly
and covered the vietnam war which was a work of art in itself

we just dont have ( and havent had for thirty or forty years) someone on tv which you see and think "oh yes he will tell us what is REALLY going on"

All the covid commentators, dont understand it themselves and so have no hope of telling us what is what

[andy-hughes]

PP - // Larry K came from a generation that was far too revered by the punters - like walter cronkite
who thought that if he knelt in front of Ayatollah Kh, the old boy wd release the American hostages
I mean god where DO they get ideas sich as these from? //

It's important to remember that Cronkite, and our own Richard Dimbleby, were from a different era in television.

In the fifties and sixties, people really did trust and revere those names - remember Dimbley's famous 'spaghetti trees' April Fool joke which the entire nation fell for, because if Dimbleby said it, it must be true.

Kronkite similarly, whatever opinion he offered, it became the default national view.

But that was then, and the world has changed out of all recgonition since those days.

King maintained a gravitas conferred by his age, reputation and experience, but he woul no more set the 'agenda' today than you or I would - and we have something approaching the same access to the world that he enjoyed exclusively back in the day.