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- <text id=89TT0020>
- <title>
- Jan. 02, 1989: Died:Max Robinson
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Jan. 02, 1989 Planet Of The Year:Endangered Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 88
- </hdr><body>
- <p> DIED. Max Robinson, 49, blunt TV correspondent who was the
- first full-time black anchor of a network news show; of AIDS; in
- Washington. In 1978 he joined Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings
- on ABC's World News Tonight, but was relegated to weekend shows
- after Reynolds died in 1983. He fought to put more blacks in TV
- jobs and once accused the media of being "a crooked mirror"
- through which "white America views itself."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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