Roger Mudd, Veteran Newsman for CBS and NBC, Dies at 93

I can't believe he was still alive. Damn, people live long these days.

And now they're going to bury him in the dirtt.

Classic BDF. You just know this guy had a very lucky wife.

He was a big buddy of Eudora Welty for some reason.

He was a good journalist. RiP

He was BFF’s with the Kennedy’s until he interviewed Ted for CBS in 1979 and made him look like an inarticulate fool who couldn’t explain what happened at Chappaquidick or why he even wanted to be president. The Kennedy’s iced him out after that.

What's with the improper thread title, OP? You are MUD to me!

I remember hearing him being interviewed on public radio a decade or so ago. I think he was promoting his Autobiography. He said he was forced to say on the air that Walter Cronkite was away on work assignment when he was in reality on one of his numerous vacations sailing off of Martha's Vineyard.

Roger Harrison Mudd

February 9, 1928 - March 9, 2021

RIP

He always came across as rather SMUG to me like Harry Reasoner.

“He always came across as rather SMUG to me like Harry Reasoner.”

Uh-oh. Somebody’s slinging Mudd.

Roger Mudd was a collateral descendant of Samuel Mudd, the doctor who was imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, which action gave birth to the disparaging epithet, "his name is Mudd."

Christ, is Morely Safer and Phil Bradley still alive too?

I dunno. Is they?

Mudd on Eudora Welty:

"From the first meeting, our friendship was instantaneous. She was a news junkie, an avid consumer of TV news, particularly 'The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour,' and a highly opinionated judge of politicians. In Jackson they still claim that in 1988 Eudora, after backing her '78 Oldsmobile out of the garage, threw the local Republicans into a panic when they spotted her making several slow passes through town, sporting 'Dukakis for President' bumper stickers."

I know right r1 — I just rewatched “I Claudius” and googled Sian Phillips to see when she’d died ... AND SHE’S STILL FUCKING ALIVE.

Christ, that is a face built like a brick.

R10 That's Hawy Weasoner

My cousin went to college with his son Matthew, knew him there and said he did a ton of drugs with him. (It was the 80s).

r16 Sian survived Peter O'Toole of course she would live to be as old as Methuselah.