# RIP Edwin Newman **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929 "2010-09-16T02:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/1 "2010-09-16T02:33:59Z")
Newsman and language aficionado [Edwin Newman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Newman) has died at the age of 91. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/2 "2010-09-16T03:12:12Z")
The pressure on anyone writing his obituary will be enormous. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/3 "2010-09-16T03:27:56Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > The pressure on anyone writing his obituary will be enormous. Considering the current crop of [del]journalists[/del] glam fam talking head bimbos, it will probably come from an “elder” such as Tom Brokaw. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/4 "2010-09-16T03:45:17Z")
Holy cow, I hadn’t even realized he was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Zen\_Postman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/4da419/32.png) [@Zen\_Postman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zen_Postman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/5 "2010-09-16T05:29:43Z")
Oddly enough, he actually died over a month ago, but because his family wanted time to grieve privately, the death wasn’t announced until yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/6 "2010-09-16T05:58:24Z")
As Jerry Seinfeld often said, “Goodbye, Newman!” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/7 "2010-09-16T13:35:25Z")
I loved his books on language, and his appearance on _Saturday Night Live_, playing a suicide hotline volunteer who kept correcting the caller’s grammar, was a priceless piece of self-mockery. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/8 "2010-09-16T13:44:28Z")
One of the vanishing breed of reliable newspeople. Whatever was ever said about Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite as being trustworthy and accurate was true in spades for Newman. Who’s left from that group? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/9 "2010-09-16T15:06:05Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > One of the vanishing breed of reliable newspeople. Whatever was ever said about Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite as being trustworthy and accurate was true in spades for Newman. You’re referring, of course, to his anchoring the _Weekly World News_ TV show. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-edwin-newman/553929/10 "2010-09-16T15:09:40Z")
No disrespect intended, but am I the only one who thought he died years ago? He was a great host on SNL. He did a MY FAIR LADY sketch in which he bet Tom Snyder (Akroyd?) that he could convert the bartender into a news anchor and another in which he manned a crisis line but kept correcting the woman’s word usage.