Bernard Shaw, CNN Anchor, No More…..
82-year-old CNN anchor Bernard Shaw passed away on Wednesday. Bernard has been a fixture on the network for more than 20 years. His family revealed in a statement that Shaw passed away from pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19.
Shaw was a part of CNN’s founding team in 1980 and was the network’s first lead anchor. He left his job in 2001.
Bernard was born on May 22nd, 1940, grew up in Chicago, and before enlisting in the Marines, he studied at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He was already certain that he wanted to go into journalism. In addition to working for CBS News and ABC News, where he reported from Congress, the White House, and Latin America, he started his journalistic career in his hometown.
When people started flocking to CNN to follow breaking events, Bernard was frequently the face they saw on the screen: during the 1981 attempt on the life of then-President Ronald Reagan, during the slaughter at Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, live from his hotel room in Baghdad during the First Gulf War in 1991, and during the tumultuous 2000 presidential election.
He admitted to interviewer Michele Martin that one of his goals was to be able to maintain emotional control while hell was breaking out. “I personally feel that I passed my severe test for that in Baghdad,” he said.
I want to be cooler the more intense the news story I cover. People rely on you for accurate, detached accounts of what is happening, so the more I ratchet down my emotions, even the tone of voice. And for me to get worked up and carried away would be a disservice to news consumers, whether they be readers, listeners, or watchers.
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Bernard Shaw, an American journalist who served as CNN’s primary news anchor from 1980 until his retirement in March 2001, was born on May 22, 1940, and died on September 7, 2022. He worked as a reporter and anchor for WNUS, Westinghouse Broadcasting, CBS News, and ABC News before joining CNN.
Edgar Shaw, a house painter and railroad employee, and Camilla (Murphy) Shaw, a housekeeper, were Shaw’s parents when he was born in Chicago, Illinois. From 1963 to 1968, he was a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He worked in America.
During his time in the Marine Corps, he served in Hawaii and at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina, where he worked as a “Message Center” expert and was promoted to Corporal, E-4, in 1962.
He developed a friendship with Walter Cronkite, showed a keen interest in the print media, clipped stories from newspapers, and frequently travelled to Washington, D.C. on the weekends.
As a reporter and anchor for WNUS in Chicago in 1964, Bernard started his broadcasting career. Later, he relocated to Washington to work as the White House correspondent after working as a reporter for the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Chicago.
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From 1971 through 1977, Bernard was a correspondent at CBS News’ Washington bureau. Before taking the position of Senior Capitol Hill Correspondent at ABC News in 1978, he joined the network in 1977 as a Latin American correspondent and bureau chief.
Bernard’s coverage of the 1981 Ronald Reagan murder attempt, which he co-anchored with Daniel Schorr, a former CBS News correspondent and one of the network’s earliest on-air personalities, is credited with helping to establish CNN as a trustworthy and dependable broadcast news source at a crucial juncture in the network’s history. Shaw left ABC in 1980 to join CNN as co-anchor of its PrimeNews show, anchoring from Washington, D.C.
Bernard gained notoriety for the query he asked Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis during their 1988 election-season second presidential debate with George H. W. Bush.
Bernard asked Dukakis if he would favour the irrevocable death punishment for a person who hypothetically raped and killed Dukakis’s wife, knowing that he opposed the death penalty.
Dukakis replied that he would not; nonetheless, opponents thought that he did not adequately address it on a personal level and that his statement was structured too legalistically and rationally.
During a presidential debate, Kitty Dukakis and other well-known people thought the question was insensitive and unjustified. Ann Compton, Andrea Mitchell, and Margaret Garrard Warner, three other journalists who were on the panel with Shaw, indicated an interest in keeping Dukakis’s name out of the discussion.
He is especially recalled for his coverage of the Gulf War in 1991. reporting from the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad alongside CNN correspondents John Holliman and Peter Arnett.
Additionally, he frequently travelled to and from the hotel’s bomb bunker. He famously said, “Clearly I’ve never been there, but this feels like we’re in the middle of hell,” when characterising the situation in Baghdad.
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Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman’s vice presidential debate in October 2000 was moderated by Shaw.
Between 1992 through March 2001, Shaw co-anchored CNN’s Inside Politics before leaving the network. Later, he made sporadic appearances on CNN, including one in May 2005 following a plane’s entry into a zone of restricted airspace over Washington, D.C. In June 2005, he co-anchored Judy Woodruff’s final CNN broadcast.
Over the course of his 41 years in journalism, Shaw concluded that the success was not worth what he missed out on in his personal life. Shaw made an appearance on the Erin Burnett Out-front segment of CNN on June 1, 2020, to commemorate the network’s 40th anniversary of launch.
Till his passing on March 30, 1974, Shaw was wed to Linda Allston. Anil Louise and Amar Edgar were their two offspring.
At the age of 82, Shaw passed away from pneumonia on September 7, 2022, in a hospital in Washington, D.C.
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Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States is home to the global cable news network The Cable News Network (CNN). CNN Global, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery, is the owner of it.
As a 24-hour cable news station, it was established in 1980 by American media tycoon Ted Turner and Reese Schoenfeld. When CNN first debuted in 1980, it was the country’s first all-news television station and the first to offer 24-hour news coverage.
