<\/a>Walter Jacobson<\/p><\/div>\n
\"Going to work for the No. 1 station for an anchorman that I'd watched from the time I was a kid, I mean, this was beyond my imagination,\" Jablin recalled in a 2005 interview. \"I wasn't on the air, but I certainly was doing something exciting and had an entr\u00e9e that was really remarkable and I knew that. . . . Walter was extremely volatile, an incredibly colorful character, very different from me. I'm very even-tempered and low-key, but Walter had a real strong personality and it was just quite an experience to work with him \u2013 a great experience because he really did teach me things that to this day I drive people here crazy with about television, but he was right then and he's right now and it was just a great experience.\"<\/p>\n
Jablin became embroiled in one of the most controversial episodes in Jacobson's career. He was called as a witness and his notes were subpoenaed after Jacobson was sued for libel by Brown and Williamson Tobacco Co. in 1984. Though it was a dark time for Jacobson, who lost the trial, the trust he and Jablin shared never wavered.<\/p>\n
Skippy's perspective? \"After his first day in our corner of the newsroom, I knew\u00a0that Burt Jablin would\u00a0be big time,\" Jacobson told me. \"He is Harvard-smart without the snoot, the right combination\u00a0for success in our profession \u2014 and thorough, objective, fair and responsible. I'm so proud of him.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a kid growing up in Highland Park, Burton Jablin faithfully watched Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson deliver the news every night and dreamed of someday becoming host of the \"Today\" show. While \"Today\" never beckoned, Jablin did get to work closely with Bill & Walter at WBBM-Channel 2 \u2014 rising from research assistant on... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}