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Pioneer TV anchor Barbara Walters to retire
Barbara Walters, who in 1976 became the first woman to anchor one of the daily network television news shows, announced late Sunday that she will retire next year. Walters, 83, began her career in TV journalism in 1961 at NBC’s morning news and entertainment program “The Today Show.” Fiteen years…
Barbara Walters laughs off talk of retirement
US television news icon Barbara Walters, 83, laughed off reports of her imminent retirement Monday, indicating she has no immediate plans to draw a line under her long and storied career. Chatting with Whoopi Goldberg and other fellow co-hosts of her ABC daytime talk show “The View,” a vivacious Walters…
Barbara Walters set to retire in 2014: reports
US broadcasting icon Barbara Walters, 83, is poised to announce her retirement next year in the coming weeks, US news media reported Thursday. The New York Times, quoting “an executive familiar with the newswoman’s plans,” said a formal announcement of Walter’s retirement would likely be made on “The View,” a…
Barbara Walters hospitalized after hitting her head
The veteran American television reporter Barbara Walters has been hospitalized after falling and hitting her head, her employer ABC News said Sunday. “Barbara Walters fell on a stair (Saturday) evening while visiting the British Ambassador’s residence and the fall left her with a cut on her forehead,” ABC News Senior…
Clinton: No plans to run for president in 2016
Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said again Wednesday she has no plans to make a second bid to be America’s first woman president. “I’ve said I really don’t believe that that’s something I will do again,” she told Barbara Walters from ABC News. “I am so grateful I had…
Callista Gingrich on Petraeus: Affairs are ‘painful’ for the family
The woman who married former House Speaker Newt Gingrich after cheating with him while he was married to his second wife says that former CIA Director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair is “sad” and “painful” for his family. “I think it’s personally very sad for he and his family,” Callista Gingrich…
‘Anonymous’ hacks Syrian president’s email with ’12345′ password
Unknown members of the hacker collective “Anonymous” reportedly broke into the private email account of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad this week and learned that the embattled dictator is not one much for electronic security. That’s because he picked the second-weakest password around: “12345,” according to documents published by Israeli news…
Obama denies being ‘Spock-like’
It’s official: US President Barack Obama has nothing to do with highly logical, largely insensitive Mr. Spock character on the science fiction TV show “Star Trek.” “What’s the biggest misconception about you?” ABC interviewer Barbara Walters asked Obama. “Me being detached, or Spock-like, or very analytical,” said Obama. “People who…
Barbara Walters calls Syrian dictator a ‘mild-mannered ophthalmologist’
ABC News personality Barbara Walters went to Syria this week to interview dictator Bashar al-Assad about his deadly crackdown on protesters and came back to report that he was “not a wild, crazy man.” “Bashar al-Assad is a dictator by accident, a mild-manner ophthalmologist,” Walters told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday.…
What a weird way to be smug
Okay, I realize that Elizabeth Hasselbeck is probably trying to be funny here, but still, I think this entire exchange between her and Barbara Walters is telling. The mother of three said she does not want to have more kids on View co-host Barbara Walters’ SIRIUS Satellite Radio show, Here’s…
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