One Sane One

During the 1960’s and 1970’s, an early news commentator on television, Eric Sevareid, made sense of national and global events. He approached each two and one-half minute segment, about a 400- word “Think Piece”, as though it were the “Gettysburg Address.” His attitude was that “Democracy is not a free ride,” and that the viewer needed the truth to be an intelligent voter in order to sustain the...