[Phogge]

Most of them put on stuffed shirts over time. Bryant Gumbal was an incredible jerk when he was at KNBC LA. However he matured a bit although he waved a penalty flag on another African American reporter on his short lived CBS magazine show. Boom Boom Berman was a terror on the set. Of course he had cause... working for ESPN. Leslie Stahl could be the nicest woman on the planet one week and an absolute Cruella another week. You learned to live with it or just refuse to take assignments with some correspondents or producers. The very best to work with were Don Klein, Russ Hodges, Steve Sabol, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner and Frank Reynolds.

Madden was always great to everybody on our crews but we were working for Films and the company occupies a unique place in American journalism.

[Phogge]

Most of them put on stuffed shirts over time. Bryant Gumbal was an incredible jerk when he was at KNBC LA. However he matured a bit although he waved a penalty flag on another African American reporter on his short lived CBS magazine show. Boom Boom Berman was a terror on the set. Of course he had cause... working for ESPN. Leslie Stahl could be the nicest woman on the planet one week and an absolute Cruella another week. You learned to live with it or just refuse to take assignments with some correspondents or producers. The very best to work with were Don Klein, Russ Hodges, Steve Sabol, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner and Frank Reynolds.

Madden was always great to everybody on our crews but we were working for Films and the company occupies a unique place in American journalism.