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Rewrite

Just letting everyone know that I'm planning on completely overhauling this article in the coming weeks. Mr. Brokaw deserves a better article. :) Gzkn 07:36, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image

What is with the image?? And, what is with all these unflattering images of TV anchors... Tom, Dan, Katie, etc..

How is this article acceptable for a network anchorman!?

Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. His last broadcast as anchorman was on December 1, 2004, succeeded by Brian Williams in a carefully planned transition. In the later part of Tom Brokaw's tenure, NBC Nightly News became the most watched cable or broadcast news program in the United States.

This doesn't make sense, is full of grammatical errors and is hardly worthy of an article on such a prominent figure. If this is the intro, I hate to think what the rest of the article is like. I agree with Gzkn.

War chant

He also asked "Are we at war?" and exclaimed "War! War!" in the style of a sports chant. This shouldn't have been removed, it's far more notable than the remaining war quote. MartinSFSA (talk) 10:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC) [reply]

You are the originator of this quote. You have repeatedly added it without reference. You need to provide a citation or risk being branded as a troll and vandal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.24.105 (talk) 16:42, 5 August 2008 (UTC) [reply]

You're right about me adding and maintaining it, but wrong on every other point. First of all the source of the quote is already in the text. Secondly you could have added it, and finally I'm not concerned about being "branded" anything by anonymous. MartinSFSA (talk) 18:34, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Speech impediment
The article says:
Brokaw suffers from a speech impediment as the result of a birth defect (cleft lip). [1]
The citation is not sufficient, as it's just one anonymous person's post on a message board. I also suspect a cleft palette would be obvious; it seems untrue to me. We should probably revert this addition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjbprime (talk • contribs) 02:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Rumors
The article says: Rumored candidates for the job include Chuck Todd, David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, and Gwen Ifill.
It's not impossible for rumors to be verifiable. You are, after all, verifying that the rumor exists, rather than that the rumor is true. And this needs to be verified by a reputable source, or else Wikipedia starts looking like a poor cousin to the National Enquirer, People Magazine, and the cable "news" channels.
72.72.129.86 (talk) 01:31, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
editsemiprotected
I'm sorry but the last few lines of his career 2008 after mentioning he'll be monitoring the 2nd Prez debate, this comes up:
"What is a debate without the discussion of civilocity; the benefits and disadvantages of watching the person whom you voted to power in a democracy the entire time that person is in service to you? Is a better educated society a better society? A candidate not running on civilocity surely doesn't have the peoples best interest at heart. Any senator, representative, or person opposed of civilocity is asking not to know the full story."
This seems to be either misplaced or something, but surely does not belong in Brokaw's wiki. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.71.25.187 (talk) 08:32, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Personality
Some description of his personality traits may be helpful to gain a better understanding of who Mr. Brokaw is. Various colleagues, and publications have written brief opinions on him. He has been described as very socially conscious (social climber) in New York, with a high degree of self-importance.