Claytoonz thoughts on Baba WaWa … “Walters blurred the lines between news and entertainment and between journalists and celebrities.” … and more!!
The New York Times writes that Barbara Walters broke barriers for women as a co-host of the “Today” show, a network evening news anchor, and a creator of “The View,” all while gaining her own kind of celebrity. Also while covering this iconic journalist who broke barriers, the Grey Lady, (not Walters, the Times) put an apostrophe in “Walter’s.” Ugh.
I have mixed views on Barbara Walters. She was iconic and a trailblazer she was a great interviewer and got access to people other journalists couldn’t reach, like Fidel Castro and the Shah of Iran. She would ask tough questions like the time she asked Robin Givens if her husband Mike Tyson ever hit her. She asked this question was Givens was sitting right next to Tyson….and then Givens filed for divorce days after the interview.
But she also would ask dumb questions, like after Katherine Hepburn said she felt…
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