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A Farewell To Foremother Of TV Journalism: Barbara Walter Retires

NPR

By Eric Deggans

Published May 15, 2014 at 10:05 AM HST

Barbara Walters retires from daily television work on the May 15 edition of The View. As NPR's TV critic Eric Deggans notes, Walters may just be the real parent of today's TV journalists, who often meld the worlds of entertainment and news.

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Eric Deggans

Eric Deggans is NPR's first full-time TV critic.

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