Jim Lehrer and Me

I recently had the opportunity to be present for Jim Lehrer's announcement of his semi-retirement from the PBS NewsHour show he has anchored, in various forms, for almost 40 years.  Jim is a tireless newsman and his personal code of journalistic ethics is legendary among media outlet:

 

• Do nothing I cannot defend.


• Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.


• Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.


• Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.


• Assume the same about all people on whom I report.


• Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.


• Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything.


• Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions.


• No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.


• And finally, I am not in the entertainment business.

 

I was honored to be his guest at the NewsHour HQ for his announcement, as was my iPad 2.

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Speaking of my iPad 2, it was the recent guest on the NewsHour, again:

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82DUbpPgVo