Brit Hume Wins Award

As this News Busters post reports, longtime Fox News Network anchor Brit Hume has won the William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence. The honor is awarded by the Media Research Center whose president, Brent Bozell, remembered:

Recently, a top ABC correspondent told me that letting Brit Hume leave that network was the biggest mistake it ever made.

Brit Hume was a class act. His retirement has left the television news business noticeably short of gravitas.