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BLOWING IT: When Thelonious Monk died on Feb 17 I didn’t exactly expect a Nightline special edition, that would have been asking too much, nor was I particularly surprised or bothered that Lee Strasberg’s demise, which occurred on the same day (or thereabouts), got slightly more in-depth coverage from the various news media (after all Strasberg not only hob-knobbed with, but taught American royalty) — but I did find it disgraceful that on the CBS Evening News Dan Rather couldn’t manage to pronounce Monk’s name correctly.

July 1, 1982
Richard C. Walls

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