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Slate's Middlebrow: Goodbye, Tom Brokaw

NPR

Published December 2, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

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Slate contributor Bryan Curtis reflects on the career of news anchor Tom Brokaw, who last night retired from the NBC Nightly News after helming the news show for more than two decades. Curtis praises Brokaw's news delivery, but questions his journalistic instincts.