Rip Charles Osgood

Another old-time radio/TV journalist gone.

crickets :cricket:

His death was previously mentioned in the Celebrity Death Pool; Eric 1 liked Osgood’s book Nothing Could Be Finer Than A Crisis That Is Minor. And note that the New York Times can be paywalled–so an additional non-paywalled source is desirable; I mentioned:

Oh okay…I haven’t been reading that other thread.

(I’m aware that the NYTimes is paywalled. That’s why whenever I post a Times link, it’s always a gift link.)

The radio station my parents listened to when I was growing up was a CBS affiliate, so I remember “The Osgood File” quite well. One that stands out in my mind was when he was riffing on the acronym POSSLQ (persons of opposite sex sharing living quarters) which I think had recently been added as a census option or something.