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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCokie Roberts, Pioneering Female Journalist Who Helped Shape NPR, Dies at 75
Read full story at https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761050916/cokie-roberts-pioneering-female-journalist-who-helped-shape-npr-dies-at-75
Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who joined an upstart NPR in 1978 and left an indelible imprint on the growing network with her coverage of Washington politics before later going to ABC News, has died. She was 75.
Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, according to a family statement.
A bestselling author and Emmy Award winner, Roberts was one of NPR's most recognizable voices and is considered one of a handful of pioneering female journalists along with Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg who helped shape the public broadcaster's sound and culture at a time when few women held prominent roles in journalism.
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)and miss them.
RIP. Cokie.
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...
Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.
Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter
Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)
snowybirdie
(5,190 posts)A real pioneer.
Coventina
(26,846 posts)She was the biggest reason why I quit giving money to NPR.
I, for one, am glad I never have to hear her voice again.
I'm not gonna grave dance, but I'm not going to pretend I'm sorry she's gone.
ConnorMarc
(653 posts)I noticed it more in the Obama years.
Didn't hate her, as yet, but sure wasn't feeling her rhetoric. Like at all.
I did, however, find her to be an attractive older woman.
Didn't like her rhetoric.
Sorry to hear of her passing.
I'm guessing she must have gotten sick recently, last time I remember seeing her on TV she looked fine.
May she rest in peace.
malaise
(267,800 posts)He disappeared in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (February 15, 1914 disappeared October 16, 1972) was an American Democratic politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the House majority leader and a member of the Warren Commission.
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I too found her way too supportive of Dumbya.
Still she was a progressive in an earlier life.
AllyCat
(16,034 posts)She was one of the first voices I remember hearing when I started listening to NPR. Safe passage maam.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)eom
Coventina
(26,846 posts)UpInArms
(51,252 posts)And the world is made better by her absence
Coventina
(26,846 posts)People like her paved the way for Trump.
riversedge
(69,713 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)I generally found her to be a RW hack, and she's one of the reasons I basically stopped listening to NPR.
Not glad she's dead or anything, just not at all impressed with her journalistic career.
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)for women's careers in media and politics. But I had to stop listening to her.
I wish her family peace and a gentle passing for her.
KG
(28,749 posts)sounded like she cribbed of the morning papers before her morning npr gig.