His role models in journalism were the television newscaster David Brinkley, and the columnist Walter Lippmann.
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Dan Buckles, newscaster (takeoff on Dan Rather and David Brinkley); his on-air partners, Kevin "Doc" Wolfe and Leah Burns, portrayed vocal spoofs of Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer in the news segment.
He paired Chet Huntley and David Brinkley for the first time to co-anchor NBC's coverage of the 1956 Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
During her early days in television, she worked at ABC News in Washington - on Nightline, World News Tonight; This Week with David Brinkley and GMA; She also spent time at Fox Television station WNYW in New York City.