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Jim Lehrer


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Texan, Marine, reporter, a good American.

We need more like him in today's news "industry".

 

“I have an old-fashioned view that news is not a commodity,” Mr. Lehrer told The American Journalism Review in 2001. “News is information that’s required in a democratic society, and Thomas Jefferson said a democracy is dependent on an informed citizenry. That sounds corny, but I don’t care whether it sounds corny or not. It’s the truth.”

I'm Jim Lehrer. Thank you, and good night.

Good night to you, Mr. Lehrer. You will be missed.

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