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Revered journalist and news host Barbara Walters interviewed everyone from Princess Grace of Monaco to several US presidents to Kim Kardashian.

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her

Revered journalist and news host Barbara Walters interviewed everyone from Princess Grace of Monaco to several US presidents to Kim Kardashian.

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture

She came to serve as a trusted reference point: What Barbara thought, what she said and, especially, what she asked the people she interviewed.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="http://www.metro.us/barbara-walters-dead-at-93-was-cultural-fixture-tv-icon/"></div>NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big shots and celebrities whose names and faces might have changed from year to year. But hers never did. She first found […]<!-- AddTh...

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture. For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big shots and celebrities whose names and faces might have changed from year to year. But hers never did. She first found her way to prominence in a visually oriented business where, typically, women were adornments or otherwise secondary. Walters death at age 93 was announced Friday. 

Barbara Walters was a heroic presence on TV, leading the way for women in news and placing the world's most prominent people in front of her audience.