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I'm going to miss this man, he was one of the few news reports that told the story well over the years. He'll be missed by many who enjoyed his five minutes at the end of 60 minutes on Sundays. However I also remember his reporting before he came on 60 minutes in his earlier days.
When u see a man who has lived both a good and a full life, made his mark for himself and others it's hard to be too sad. He lived long and prospered, though I am sure he will be missed.
When u see a man who has lived both a good and a full life, made his mark for himself and others it's hard to be too sad. He lived long and prospered, though I am sure he will be missed.
I'm with SQ here, I feel the reason he stayed with it for so long was he loved what he did, a true privilege.
He seemed, in the last couple decades, to get the respected (for the most part) but grouchy old man thing going on. That's all good, but one must realize his contribution to newscasting - both print and video. He's part of history. If he had died 40 years ago his mark in history would have been made. I think his 60 minutes appearances overshadowed it, in fact it's only a footnote to it. This was a guy that was a significant part of WW2 reporting. This is a guy that was a contemporary of Ernie Pyle (famous WW2 correspondent that has written some of the most accurate pieces of combat reporting in history, KIA in the Pacific 1945), in fact he's mentioned several times in the memoriors that Ernie Pyle's wrote, later turned into books, as they were often in the same war zone together.
Read some of Ernie Pyles posthomously released books, then you realize "wow, Rooney was really in the middle of the sh*t". Not many realize that.
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Andy Rooney Dies @ 92
