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RIP Barbara Walters - cardcrimson - 12-31-2022
Lost an icon yesterday, Barbara Walters. Tons of respect for what she accomplished in over her career from the 60's through the 10's. A true trailblazer. Hoping Phogge has some stories. . . .
RE: RIP Barbara Walters - CompSci87 - 12-31-2022
I think this was brought up in another thread and Phogge said he'd never worked with her. But I can't find the post.
RE: RIP Barbara Walters - Phogge - 12-31-2022
Yep. Worked with most everybody else. She didn’t do much in the field but was an interview warrior. My friends who worked with her told me that she was in total control on the set. Interesting story in Rather’s book about her planting a high heel on his shoe during a story.
As a general rule from someone who has worked with Sawyer, Stahl, Chung, Braver, Alfonsi and many other gals you want to make sure that they look as good as possible in interviews and stand ups. Conversely the older guys like Safer, Wallace and Reasoner have so much character in their features that it is difficult to light them poorly.
RE: RIP Barbara Walters - Nan3cy - 12-31-2022
I liked her except when she bad-mouthed Stanford after the 20/20 segment on the indirect cost controversy. The government accused Stanford in 1990 of overcharging the feds by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, egged on by a “whistleblower” who thought LSJU was his ticket to millions (through a False Claims suit). We wound up settling with the feds for one-half of one percent of the amount we were accused of; in consideration of which we got a letter attesting that LSJU had committed no fraud against the government (which is what the whistleblower had claimed, over and over and over). Anyway, after the segment, she was rhapsodic about the courage of the whistleblower going up against the big bad university. Since I worked in the office at Stanford that had to deal with the government auditors, along with lawyers and consultants ad nauseum, I was not an unbiased observer.
RE: RIP Barbara Walters - lex24 - 01-01-2023
(12-31-2022, 06:52 PM)Nan3cy Wrote: I liked her except when she bad-mouthed Stanford after the 20/20 segment on the indirect cost controversy. The government accused Stanford in 1990 of overcharging the feds by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, egged on by a “whistleblower” who thought LSJU was his ticket to millions (through a False Claims suit). We wound up settling with the feds for one-half of one percent of the amount we were accused of; in consideration of which we got a letter attesting that LSJU had committed no fraud against the government (which is what the whistleblower had claimed, over and over and over). Anyway, after the segment, she was rhapsodic about the courage of the whistleblower going up against the big bad university. Since I worked in the office at Stanford that had to deal with the government auditors, along with lawyers and consultants ad nauseum, I was not an unbiased observer.
Lawsuits/legal matters are seldom reported fairly. And don’t even get me started on Judge Persky. One of the great hatchet jobs.
RE: RIP Barbara Walters - Mick - 01-02-2023
(01-01-2023, 07:31 PM)lex24 Wrote:(12-31-2022, 06:52 PM)Nan3cy Wrote: I liked her except when she bad-mouthed Stanford after the 20/20 segment on the indirect cost controversy. The government accused Stanford in 1990 of overcharging the feds by nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, egged on by a “whistleblower” who thought LSJU was his ticket to millions (through a False Claims suit). We wound up settling with the feds for one-half of one percent of the amount we were accused of; in consideration of which we got a letter attesting that LSJU had committed no fraud against the government (which is what the whistleblower had claimed, over and over and over). Anyway, after the segment, she was rhapsodic about the courage of the whistleblower going up against the big bad university. Since I worked in the office at Stanford that had to deal with the government auditors, along with lawyers and consultants ad nauseum, I was not an unbiased observer.
Lawsuits/legal matters are seldom reported fairly. And don’t even get me started on Judge Persky. One of the great hatchet jobs.
I bought a slightly-used Audi 100 (successor to the Audi 5000, subject of the 60 Minutes report) with all the options for a comically low price, not long after the "unintended acceleration" hatchet job by 60 Minutes. I had one uncle, who knew nothing about cars, swore up and down I would regret it, that I would put the car through my garage. My other uncle, who owned an auto repair shop, raced cars, and worked for Saab told me that the Audi 100 was an amazing car and that the price at which I purchased it was the steal of the century. I drove it for about 120k miles. Brake and accelerator pedals worked as advertised... ;). Audi (at the time) also offered a 50k unlimited warranty that even covered fluid changes (I had 28k left on the warranty).
Three months after the hatchet job, 60 Minutes ran a 15 second retraction that said they "may have misreported" the results. An NHTSA report concluded that "driver pedal misapplication" was at fault, not Audi.
The Audi 5000 Unintended Acceleration Debacle
Manufacturing the Audi Scare | The Legal Revolution & Its Consequences (manhattan-institute.org)