{"id":11442,"date":"2016-05-25T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2016-05-25T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T11:00:05","slug":"the-best-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2016\/05\/25\/the-best-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The best man"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ron<\/a>

<\/a> Ron Magers<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI hope that what I do is without pretension . . . the most straightforward, understandable way. I also hope that I think on my feet in breaking situations. I also hope that I will hold our staff\u2019s work up for view in the best possible light. I hope I\u2019m here for the long run.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

With those prescient words Ron Magers described himself to the Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0in 1982 \u2014 less than a year after he arrived from Minneapolis to join\u00a0WMAQ-Channel 5.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWith little or no fanfare, 37-year-old Ron Magers has settled into the key anchor position at the NBC-owned station, teaming smoothly with co-anchor Linda Yu,\u201d Tribune TV critic Ron Alridge wrote. \u201cQuickly, though quietly, he has established himself as a quality act, the best in Chicago now . . .\u00a0He\u2019s the best because he does the best job of doing what anchors must do: speak with authority; serve up stories smoothly; ad-lib unobtrusively and maintain a professional, credible, intelligent atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thirty-five years later Magers, 71, is still the best in Chicago. Tonight he\u2019ll anchor his last newscast for WLS-Channel 7, <\/a>where he\u2019s been No. 1 since he joined the ABC-owned station in 1998. His retirement<\/a> after more than 50 years in the business marks the end of an era for Chicago journalism and a watershed moment for television news.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Ron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI hope that what I do is without pretension . . . the most straightforward, understandable way. I also hope that I think on my feet in breaking situations. I also hope that I will hold our staff\u2019s work up for view in the best possible light. I hope I\u2019m here for the long run.\u201d... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11442"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11450,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions\/11450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}