"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them," William Shakespeare.
We have four times witnessed greatness in broadcast journalism commentary in a little more than five weeks weeks. The four recent moments of broadcast greatness are remarkable because they happed on cable TV, where the past two decades of cable news ennui would lead one to speculate that greatness in that medium might happen about once a millennium.
Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and now Keith Olbermann (with his quadruple shot) are the men who have produced the Six Greatest Moments. None of the men were born great (I do not believe that possible in a democracy), but Murrow and Cronkite had achieved greatness by the time their broadcast moments came.
The greatest moments in broadcast journalism are below the fold: