Bernard Shaw

It does.

My gold star, right, my brass ring was somewhere at the intersection of Bernard Shaw, the late great Bernard Shaw from CNN, Arsenio Hall, and Oprah Winfrey.

L- love it.

Somewhere in a space where I could be a trusted source of information, on the cutting edge of what people are really talking about, but with the ubiquity and the resources to do whatever I want.

I wanted to create a persona so that my work as Joshua Johnson would stand as factual, and I could play this character.

I wanted to figure out who he was to me, and to do that, I looked at anchors who I respected.

My idea of Dwight Richmond is he thinks that he is Bernard Shaw.

He thinks he is the two men for whom I named the character.

So you wouldn't let me play with you in the Major Leagues, then I will create a league of my own.

Now, that league would help open up opportunities, because we used to run a film that was narrated by former CNN anchorman Bernard Shaw, the late, great Bernie Shaw.

And in the film, Al, he says, "You might say that the Negro Leagues were so good that they put themselves out of business."

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And remember Peter Arnett, the war correspondent.

And, uh, who was that great anchorman? Bernard Shaw.

Remember Bernard Shaw? And there were a bunch of original CNN anchors.

So they became really big, and CNN started to do pretty well.

Now, what do you do at night? You know, prime time, 8:00, 9:00 at night, it's not a big time for news, so they, they put on a talk show.

This is the year in review, politics.

I'm Bernard Shaw.

And I'm Judy Woodruff.

Over the next hour, we'll look back on the events that shaped the political world in 1995.

... wheres, and whys.

I mean, and, and the problem is now linear TV, and I'm so thankful for your program, linear TV is dying, right? What we knew as what Walter Cronkite used to do, or, or Carole Simpson, or Bernard Shaw, Max Robinson, it's, it's dying.

And now comes streaming.

This is where, where you are.

John Holloman is there.

Bernard Shaw is there.

Peter Arnett and CNN staffers.

The bombing is intensifying now.

So here we go.

Let's tune in now from the auditorium in New Hampshire with CNN's Inside Politics featuring Bernard Shaw and Judy Woodruff.

[upbeat music] Welcome to this special edition of Inside Politics.

I'm Judy Woodruff.

And finally, businessman Morry Taylor, who has not, uh, been, uh, someone who's been very visible, at least out on the campaign trail, uh, talked about, uh, he really reached out to Perot supporters and said that, uh, he doesn't see any need for a third party.

Believes that those, those, uh, people who support Ross Perot ought to be in the Republican Party.

Now let's go to my colleague, Bernard Shaw, who was there, uh, who's there in the auditorium, uh, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Bernie, you were there at the very beginning of the evening to introduce this forum, and it turned out to, to be a pretty unusual evening, didn't it?