Robert MacNeil, who died last week at age 93, may have been the last of his generation of broadcast journalists who set standards for quality and reliability that one could argue have largely disappeared.
MacNeil was best known as the co-anchor, with Jim Lehrer, of PBS’s flagship newscast, now known as “PBS NewsHour,” from 1975 to 1995.
In MacNeil’s 20-year association with the newscast, it was titled “The Robert MacNeil Report,” “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” and “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.”
After MacNeil left in 1995, Lehrer anchored the show solo until 2011.
In an era before 24-hour, all-news, all-blathering cable news, and instant news of 280 characters or less on social media, the “MacNeil/Lehrer” newscasts stood at the pinnacle of TV news for their ethics, accuracy and credibility.
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