I had the good fortune of sharing a driver with Carol [Marin] in 1995 covering a trip by Cardinal Bernardin to the Middle East. Bernardin met with Yassar Arafat in Gaza and we were trying to get back to Israel. Huge roadblock on the Palestinian side for some reason. Carol jumped out of the car (brave) with a tape in her hand (smart), ran up to who ever was in charge on the PLO side (decisive), and told him, \"This is Chairman Arafat for American TV!\" (brilliant.) They let us through immediately. Years later I had the good fortune of working with her at the Sun-Times. She was respectful to everyone but what I'll remember most is she always had time to mentor young reporters, especially young women. Her \"news DNA\" can be found in newsrooms around the country, I'm sure. Great journalist, great person. Congrats on a terrific career.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robservations on the media beat: It doesn\u2019t really matter what Dan McNeil was thinking when he posted a disparaging comment about ESPN sideline reporter Maria Taylor's outfit during Monday night\u2019s NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants. \u201cNFL sideline reporter or a host for the AVN annual awards presentation?\u201d McNeil tweeted, suggesting... 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\/26909"}],"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=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26930,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions\/26930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}