A warning? Certainly.”), is what in music would be called a crossover artist. Morrison, who delivers his reports in a deep and expressive baritone that soars and dips and writes them with a distinctive turn of phrase (“Outside, the night, in a full moon, bathed the great houses of delight and sin.” or “There is a letter, written more than 60 years ago - a prophecy? Perhaps. But then there has never been a reporter quite like Keith Morrison. Correspondents don’t typically invite impersonations either, but Morrison has had plenty, most famously Bill Hader on “Saturday Night Live.” And no other correspondent has prompted Buzzfeed to post 19 reasons why he is “Television’s Greatest Gift to Mankind” as it did about Morrison. Morrison has scads of them, including Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba and Lindsay Lohan. But for all that, the 69-year-old is not only busier than ever (“Dateline” filled 150 hours on NBC last year), he’s also suddenly achieved a kind of rock star cult status.Ĭorrespondents don’t typically have fans. The 6-foot-2, gaunt and copiously white-haired “Dateline” correspondent has been reporting for nearly 40 years, and he has seen and done just about everything - from hosting a morning show to anchoring the news to covering the protests in Tiananmen Square.
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