CNN: CBS legend Frank Stanton dead at 98

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CBS legend Frank Stanton dead at 98
As president for 26 years, Stanton fought to protect journalism and helped build CBS into the 'Tiffany Network.'
December 25 2006

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Frank Stanton, the broadcasting executive who as president of CBS for 26 years helped build it into the "Tiffany Network," died on Sunday at age 98.

Stanton died Sunday afternoon at his home in Boston, according to CBS News. He had been in declining health.

Stanton, who ran the network starting in the late 1940s, helped to develop it into a broadcasting powerhouse. He was a defender of the First Amendment and a strong supporter of journalists' rights.

"The spirit and the purpose of the First Amendment...is to protect not the government, not the press, but the people," he was quoted as saying on the CBS news Web site.

In his career, Stanton won five Peabody awards for journalistic excellence.

He was known as the master builder of CBS, turning a small radio network into a broadcasting powerhouse under company founder William Paley, who tapped Stanton as president in 1946....

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/25/news/newsmakers/stanton/index.htm?cnn=yes

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1. Sadly, he'll now be perfectly positioned to roll in his grave over what's

happened to the "news" media since his heyday.