Veteran journalist Tom Braden passed away at 92 years of age: http://news.aol.com/article/crossfire-creator-tom-braden-dies-at-92/413953?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl1link5http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fcrossfire-creator-tom-braden-dies-at-92%2F413953
Braden will be best known for the memoir EIGHT IS ENOUGH, which was turned into a 70s hour-long dramedy with Dick Van Patten playing a fictionalized version ("Tom Bradford")--plus being the liberal POV standard-bearer on CNN's CROSSFIRE (Patrick Buchanan was the conservative antagonist).
For better or worse, CROSSFIRE inaugurated the cable-news standard of hosts and interviewees talking over each other and posturing for the sake of "good television." But at least Braden (who had a Golden Age of Journalism sense of gravitas) and Buchanan's tenure wasn't as cartoonish as the show's later period with Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson. And the show's demise was allegedly triggered by Jon Stewart's public dressdown of Begala and Carlson: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/01/4509.ars
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