His name is Mudd
His name is Mudd The McDonough County Voice A man whom many consider to be a bellwether for the dominance and flash of network television news in the 1960s and 1970s died last week. Roger Mudd was 93 years old. In one of his obituaries, the Associated Press wrote, "His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-internet days when the big three networks...were the main source of news." Roger Mudd was one of a handful of news presenters who directed my career choice as a boy. The others were Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather.