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TV reporter John Henning dies
By adamg on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 8:49am
Channel 4 reports Henning died last night after a long illness.
Henning covered every statewide election in Massachusetts since 1962, and every Boston election since 1963.
He won numerous awards for his reporting on the Boston gangland wars in the 1960s, the search for the Boston Strangler, the Boston busing turmoil of the 1970s, and state budget problems.
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John Henning
What a great loss. There are very few news reporters left in Boston. He will be missed.
Sad
Once Jack Hynes goes...we'll be left with just that young-un, Jack Williams.
(Tom Ellis doesn't count as he is immortal...or undead or whatever.)
A class act and one of the last of his kind..
From Boston.com;
"Some people think I'm boring, that I don't smile enough," Mr. Henning, who was known for a straightforward delivery, told the Globe in 1981, after he announced his resignation from Channel 7. "But my philosophy is that anything that takes away from the job of presenting the news, that is distractive to the viewer, is bad. I'm talking about things like hairstyle and clothes and mannerisms."
You stay classy, Mr. Henning!
It is a loss.
It's also too bad that TV "news" has become so irrelevant in recent years. We need more like him and less vamped-up junk journalism on the public airwaves.
R. I. P., John Henning.
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