RIP Judith Crist (mother of Steve Crist)

[tector]

I remember watching her as a kid on the Today Show, before that clown Gene Shalit took over. She was way classier. But TV had those kind of people on then--William F. Buckley, Dick Cavett, David Susskind, etc. The entertainment programming was largely dreck in those days, but they were not afraid to appear "elitist" on programs meant to engage your mind.

You can scour MSNBC, Fox News and CNN and not find anybody worthy to be compared to the likes of them.