Tonight is Marselis Parsons's last broadcast. The Free Press has a story here. Kate Duffy offers Mr. Parsons retirement advice here.
I was watching this guy just the other day and thinking "I wonder how much longer we'll be seeing him on the TV." Seriously. I was wondering that just the other day. That's the way things always work.
Thanks for the hard work and steady hand Marselis. You did a good job filling in for Gallagher. Cheers.
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Update 8:23pm. OK who cried when Marselis signed off tonight? Oh, nobody cried when Marselis signed off? I cried my eyes out.
It's sad because he overlapped the last quarter century of CBS television in Vermont. He was Dan Rather to Richard Gallager's Walter Chronkite. His retirement reminds us of the decline of everying. Not to mention the fact that he's certainly one of the last people in the country to get a job in his early twenties, stay with the same company for forty-some-odd years and retire at age 65. There are no more Dan Rathers and there is no more American dream. Not the way it was anyway. Remember-When- Mar-sel-is Par-sons- oooh- oooh- oooh, oooh-ohhh.
As per usual the FreeP trolls are out on this one. Can't let something like this slide w/o making pointless, rude comments. Always thought the guy good a good, solid job. There aren't many of his generation left. Kinda too bad.
ReplyDeleteDid a good, solid job, that is.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what Stuart Hall is doing right now.
ReplyDeleteOr Tony Adams.
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