From The Museum Of Broadcast Communications
From 1964 until his retirement Sevareid appeared on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. During that period his Emmy and Peabody award-winning two-minute commentaries, with their penchant to elucidate rather than advocate, inspired those who admired him to refer to him as "The Grey Eminence." On the other hand those who were irked by his tendency to overemphasize the complexity of every issue nicknamed him, "Eric Severalsides."
This guy could say more pompous nothings than anyone I've ever seen before or since. He's been one of my anti-role models for many years. What a blowhard . . .
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