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Regarding the Sept. 16 obituary for broadcaster Edwin Newman http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507593.html: Trying to use words ...

Edwin Newman, the genteelly rumpled, genially grumpy NBC newsman who was equally famous as a stalwart defender of the honor of English, has died in Oxford, England. He was 91. He died of pneumonia on ...

New York - NBC News says its longtime correspondent and language cop Edwin Newman has died. He was 91. Newman did political and foreign reporting on various NBC News programs during 34 years with the ...

In television newscasting nowadays, everybody’s got his own private beat. but NBC’s laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything.

NEW YORK - Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A ...