Longtime CBS News commentator Andy Rooney has been hospitalized in stable condition after suffering “serious complications” following minor surgery last week, the network said Tuesday.
Rooney got his start in journalism during World War II, when he wrote for the “Stars and Stripes,” and joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for Arthur Godfrey’s radio and television entertainment show. Rooney went on to collaborate between 1962 and 1968 on a series of essays with his friend the late newsman Harry Reasoner.
With Reasoner narrating, Rooney wrote and produced “An Essay on Bridges” (1965), “An Essay on Hotels” (1966), “An Essay on Women” (1967), “An Essay on Chairs” (1968) and “The Strange Case of the English Language” (1968). He wrote two CBS News specials in the series “Of Black America.” In 1968, his script for “Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed” won him the first of four Emmy awards.
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