Over twenty years ago, during a segment that always followed the introduction of his Sunday program This Week — in what must have been a first for television news programming — the late David Brinkley simply said: "First, as for the news since the Sunday morning papers, there isn't any… so we'll be back with today's program in a moment."
Imagine that. It was a moment of such utter bravery and brevity that it should have earned the host a daytime Emmy Award, the gratitude of television viewers from sea to shining sea, and the attention of broadcast executives across the fruited plain. Especially in Boston.
