Marvin Kalb
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"Marvin L. Kalb" is an United States/American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University. He is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at The George Washington University/George Washington University and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board. He is a guest scholar in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for CBS News and NBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "Murrow's Boys." His work at CBS landed him on Richard Nixon's master list of Nixon political opponents/"enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief Diplomatic Correspondent and host of Meet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard Kalb/Bernard worked alongside him.

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I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

That's too easy. . . .

He's a very accomplished newsman and a very nice man, ... He found himself in a dreadful, dreadful situation.

But if they're as powerful as you say they are, shouldn't you name them?

I think it would be easier for them to say. . . .

This is something that is simply natural for the cable operators to do.

Is it the leadership of the House? Is it Hastert? Is it DeLay?

This is one of the greatest challenges facing this particular president. This is the beginning of a major effort by the White House. Everybody has to chip in. This is a major offensive in which the media plays a big role.

Since it has happened once before, I wish that it will happen again.