GERALDO RIVERA: IN THE FACE OF HURRICANE LAURA KATRINA’S BIRTHDAY, I REMEMBER THE COVERAGE OF KILLER’S STORMS
Rivera described himself as a “street lawyer” who took an extensive journalism course at Columbia University, a summer program when Al Primo, the founder of Eyewitness News, discovered him seeking diversity among his journalists to adapt to ethnic diversity.New York City.
Soon after, he was temporarily elected to television at WABC on Labor Day 1970, at a time when the main media did not take young people who resembled him seriously.
“I was like the first rock’n’roll journalist, you know, long hair, moustacheArray…”In the 1970s, I think I talked about that decade,” Rivera said.
“FOX Nation Presents: I Am Geraldo 50 Years” will provide highlights from a four-part FOX Nation documentary series that examines Rivera’s old career with footage unique to his days as a young street journalist and his time as a war correspondent.
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Geraldo temporarily gained importance with a series of reports of drug disorders in Harlem, New York, but Rivera’s career took off in 1972 when the 28-year-old revealed deplorable situations at Willowbrook State School, where young people with special desires were abused and abused.Abused.
Willowbrook’s story has accelerated her career, but Rivera believes that achieving celebrity prestige is inevitable.
“I know he would have been ‘famous,’ he would have been, you know, a New York celebrity,” he said.”I won my first Columbia duPont award in 1971, a few months before Willowbrook …but Willowbrook writes overburdened everything.
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Rivera continued to do almost everything in the television industry, from animation of “Good Night America” in the flavor of a news magazine, the innovative hours of sunlight communicate the exhibition “Geraldo”, “Rivera Live” on CNBC, to almost two Along the way, befriended everyone, from Michael Jackson to Donald Trump, played television roles and even presented Zapruder’s historical film about the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.
He was also the host of Al Capone’s notorious special, broke his nose on live television and anchored Fox News politics when Osama bin Laden was killed through the Navy SEALs.Rivera has completed much in the more than five decades, but the story of Willowbrook, which helped end American practice.institutionalizing others with intellectual disabilities, occupies a special position at its center to this day.
“The Willowbrook thing, he gave me the philosophy of media as a tool of social change,” he said.
Rivera discovered that he could use the media to solve a challenge other people complained about, which he called “revolutionary” and sparked a new type of journalist that remains in place 50 years later.
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“Everyone used television and the strength of television to complain about a problem, how revolutionary to use that force to replace what we complained about,” he said.”Remember, Barack Obama didn’t invent hope and replaced it.”
Rivera said that once she found out she could influence the change, she came in with either foot.He calls Willowbrook’s story the greatest local history of all time and is still in touch with many of the citizens he helped save.
“It’s to separate me from this problem, ” he said.” When I walk through New York City, to this day, other people prevent me from Array …it’s a network that has welcomed me. It’s like it’s related.hold me in a way that goes far beyond what is a general quote between a journalist and the subject of a story.It’s an emotional connection.
Rivera is still obsessed with the photographs he saw on the property.
“It’s anything that’s marked in my brain. It’s anything I’ll never shake, it’s my triumph and my nightmare,” he said.”When other people begin to see the world through your eyes, then you have it.There’s no journalism like street journalism, genuine gum journalism.
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Willowbrook’s story tells in detail the first episode of Fox Nation’s “I Am Geraldo, 50 Years”, followed by the delivery of the moment “Rebel With a Cause” and the third component “Monsters, Money and Trash Talk”.The fourth edition, which will be released on Sunday, considering his tenure at Fox News.
As detailed in the Fox Nation series, Rivera’s fame grew the wild era of Studio 54 in New York, where he was a normal partymaker along with the world’s biggest celebrities.Unfortunately for today’s celebrities, the TV legend believes the fashion generation has put kibosh on public figures involved in similar activities.
“What happens in those clubs as the ultimate cursed dream of the whole jet-set, playboy and loose sex, drugs.It’s crazy,” he said. This may never exist if everyone had a camera at the time.The only other people who had cameras were the paparazzi outside the door.
Camera phones are the only thing that has replaced the global for more than 50 years, as Rivera remembers waiting for forty-five minutes for the images to be revealed, using motorcycle mail to bring the film to the lab early in her career and running to the Manhattan blocks.to fall out of band to their editors.
“It’s wild, ” he said. The way we disseminate data is incredible.Now, with this iPhone, I can make a hit on “Hannity” and have a studio-quality sound.Everyone in the country is a possible journalist Array …I think it’s wonderful.”
Another major replacement Rivera has witnessed is the advent of cable news, which has replaced itself, as networks have focused primarily on politics in years.
“We are such a politically charged and divided society that other people need to hear your strengthened mind,” he said.
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Rivera’s career took another turn after the September 11, 2001 attacks, when the New York native left a cnBC-paid concert and joined Fox News because he was looking for paintings as a war correspondent.Geraldo has completed 11 publications in Afghanistan and 11 in Iraq, as well as several trips to other areas devastated by the battle.Since then, he has been a member of Fox News and appears on the channel with regular advertisements on “FOX
Rivera, who has already traveled the world with her boat, has “another nautical dream” that she hopes to realize before leaving the life of a journalist.
“I need to stop by Michigan, stop by Chicapass, stop by the Mississippi and end up somewhere in Florida.I need to do this adventure and rig the boat like we did for the world tour,” he said, noting that I could just make Fox News come from the boat.
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“You can ask Array questions … it’s my immediate dream,” he said, jokingly that Fox News executives will have to embrace the idea.Whether this dream come true or not, Geraldo is grateful that it is even a possibility.
“I am very grateful that the public has accepted me and generally believed me, or at least believed that I believed, for part of a century,” he said.”I have survived all adjustments and trends, attitudes and technologies.So vividly and so publicly and having supported all this, I had more ups and downs than the Cyclone roller coaster on Coney Island, I’m still in the car.I’m still traveling and I’m very grateful for that.
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