Larry King Keeps Things Moving as Peabody Award Winners Bask in the Limelight - Hillary Atkin

Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now The coexecutive producer and costar of TNT39s quotMen of a Certain Agequot is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes awarded last week in New York at the 70th annual Peabody Awards presentationJust days earlier at the technically challenged TNTTBS upfront held at the Hammerstein Ballroom Romano was one of the network39s talent along with Conan O39Brien George Lopez and even network prexy Steve Koonin called upon to vamp while audio and video outages caused by a power surge were repairedAt one point in attempting to divert attention from the tense technical situation Romano mentioned that he and the drama about three middleaged men were winning a Peabody Awardand that he had to Google it to find out what it was The actor was nothing if not honest in telling the crowd at the WaldorfAstoria hotel the same thing when he stepped to the stage and accepted the honorFor those who don39t know the Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service on television radio and now online in the areas of the arts culture and journalism Every year more than 1000 entries from around the world compete to win one of the prizes which are administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and are chosen by a distinguished board of media experts overseen by program director Dr Horace NewcombThis year39s 70th edition was hosted by Larry King himself the winner of two Peabody Awards in 1980 and 1992 As it was a luncheon event with clips shown for each of 201039s 38 winning entries along with acceptance speeches from the honorees King didn39t have much time to make jokes or ask any questions but did an estimable job of moving things along especially when some of the speeches got longwindedRobert King got straight to the point in accepting the Peabody for quotThe Good Wife quot by thanking Dominique StraussKahn and Arnold Schwarzenegger for providing truthisnotonlystrangerbutmoreentertainingthanfiction storylines for next season garnering appreciative laughter from the audience for the acclaimed CBS drama he cowrites and EPsAnother quality TV series FX39s quotJustifiedquot drew Peabody love this year perhaps making up for some of the snub it received from the Emmys in not getting noticedHBO will need an entire new awards shelf to accommodate its legion of winners seven this year including the muchlauded quotTemple Grandinquot and quotThe Pacificquot quotMagic ampamp Bird A Courtship of Rivalsquot quotFor Nedaquot quotIf God Is Willing and Da Creek Don39t Risequot quot12th ampamp Delawarequot and quotBurma VJ Reporting from a Closed CountryquotFilms about John Lennon39s time in New York controversial film director Elia Kazan Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers and ESPN39s quot30 for 30quot series of documentaries about sports figures were also honored with the PeabodyBut the vast majority of the Peabody awardees are in the news and current events realm focusing on war injustice disaster and intolerance and although many of them might not be widely seen on television or heard mainly on public radio there is one word that comes to mind when you see the clips inspirationalFrom CNN39s multifaceted coverage of the Gulf oil spill to a series of reports on war veterans coping with traumatic brain injuries suffered in combat to an investigation into fraudulent job creation through a state agency to seeking justice for campus rapes and dissecting social issues in Pakistan one thing was made very clear by nearly everyone responsible for such reporting it has an extremely important place in our society and must be allowed to thriveregardless of politicsThe George Foster Peabody Awards remain at the forefront of promoting such excellence even if some of its recipients have to do some research on what they really meanHillary Atkin is an awardwinning journalist who began her career as a television news writer reporter and producer at KOBTV As a broadcast producer at KCBS in Los Angeles she won numerous Emmy Associated Press and Golden Mike Awards for live coverage and entertainment special events programming and then produced and directed biographies on Robert Duvall Elizabeth Montgomery Linda Darnell and Nicolas Cage for AampampE and E She can be reached at hillaryatkinyahoocom Check us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerMediaBizBloggers is an openthought leadership blog platform for media marketing and advertising professionals companies and organizations To contribute contact Jackmediadvisorygroupcom The opinions expressed in MediaBizBloggerscom are not those of Media Advisory Group its employees or other MediaBizBloggerscom contributors Media Advisory Group accepts no responsibility for the views of MediaBizBloggers authors

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