Barbara Walters, the trailblazing woman in television, has died aged 93.
“I do not want to appear on another program or climb another mountain,” she said earlier.
“I want instead to sit on a sunny field and admire the very gifted women — and OK, some men too — who will be taking my place.”
“I do so much homework, I know more about the person than he or she knows about themselves,” Walters said in a 2014 television special.
“She was playing in a field that was such an old boy’s network, literally and figuratively, and she didn’t take no for an answer,” Robert Thompson, said.
“At some point, the things that had been a liability for her, being a woman trying to get a foothold in a male-dominated industry, began to become more of an asset,” Thompson said.
“She was smart and prepared, but at the same time she came across as more compassionate (than her male peers).
“Barbara Walters proved to be the evolutionary step between Edward R. Murrow and Oprah Winfrey.”
“She was playing in a field that was such an old boy’s network, literally and figuratively, and she didn’t take no for an answer,” Robert Thompson, said.
Barbara Walters has died at 93, ABC News reports pic.twitter.com/662sP51uIB
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 31, 2022
I have sad news to share today. Barbara Walters passed away this evening at her home in New York. pic.twitter.com/fxSyU6BQk4
— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) December 31, 2022
