NBC News special correspondent and former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw is warning that the big media companies fail to cover stories from all angles -- far from it.
"My impression is, and the people at NBC know, that I think there’s too much duplication,” Brokaw said in a new interview with SurvivorNet.
“There’s too much repeating the same thing all day long — a cycle," he explained. "Tell me something new. Tell me something that takes the story a little farther down the line. Also... get the hell out of Washington and out of New York — and go out there and cover it where it’s going on. Find out what’s happening there.”
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For Brokaw, who was diagnosed with incurable multiple myeloma in 2013, politics keeps him "distracted from cancer," the 79-year-old journalist said.
"We’re living through a very dynamic time, to put it mildly, in American politics. So that — that’s as important to me as my cancer is. And I think it helps me get through the cancer,” he shared. “So I’m not dwelling on this cancer all the time. I’ve got a fatal cancer. I don’t — I don’t wake up thinking that way.”
Following his diagnosis 6 years ago, Brokaw immediately sought treatment at the Mayo Clinic, noting that he was "keenly aware" not everyone had the same opportunity.
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“That was... part of the blessing of my life is that I could pick up the phone and call the Mayo Clinic, and they would make room and send a plane right now,” he told the outlet. “99.9 percent of the people who get involved in this kind of a situation don’t have those opportunities, and I’m keenly aware of that.”
Brokaw revealed he still faced back pain and has started to use medical marijuana for relief.
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“I’m now on medical marijuana for my back, for the first time,” he said, adding that he hasn't done “that before.”
“But in Florida, it’s complex. And I’m unraveling it full-time.”
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