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At 6:10 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Fox News Channel broke the sad news that Pulitzer Prize-winning author and longtime commentator for the network, Dr. Charles Krauthammer passed away at the age of 68 from terminal cancer.
It didn’t take long for condolences to come pouring in from people across the political spectrum and throughout the media. Even with such short notice, both CBS and NBC ran news briefs on their evening programs reporting his passing. But ABC was the lone broadcast network to skip Krauthammer’s passing. And The Washing Post, where he wrote for decades, published an obituary that partially blamed him for the Iraq War.
For CBS Evening News brief on Krauthammer’s passing, anchor Jeff Glor focused on some of his many achievements and even included the conservative commentator’s thoughts on his life:
Charles Krauthammer, a powerful conservative voice died today of cancer. The Washington Post columnist and Fox News contributor was a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Harvard trained psychiatrist. A spinal cord injury in his 20s left him paralyzed. Earlier this month, Krauthammer posted a farewell letter writing, "I am sad to leave, but I leave with the knowledge that I lived the life that I intended." Charles Krauthammer was 68 years old.
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