Tom Brokaw and Warren Olney to be honored by Southern California Broadcast Journalists

The awards will be presented on Saturday, at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City.

(UNIVERSAL CITY) - Television news icon Tom Brokaw and award-winning radio journalist Warren Olney will receive top honors at the 62nd annual Golden Mike Awards(r) show in Universal City, the Radio & Television News Association, announced.

Brokaw will receive the RTNA's 2012 Broadcast Legend Award and Olney will be honored for his broad achievements in television news as well as his storied career over 20 years on public radio stations, both locally and nationally.

Warren Olney is the host of two acclaimed radio news interview programs, Which Way LA, now in its 20th year in the Los Angeles area, and To the Point, syndicated by Public Radio International to major-market stations nationwide since 2000. Both programs originate from KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif.

Prior to his radio career, Olney worked for 35 years as a television reporter and anchor in Washington D.C., Sacramento, and Los Angeles, including stints with the ABC-, NBC- and CBS-owned television stations in LA. The award-winning journalist was also an anchor at public television station KCET in Los Angeles. Olney will receive the RTNA's 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tom Brokaw remains one of the most familiar faces in broadcast news, serving as the managing editor and anchor of the NBC Nightly News for more than two decades. He is the only person to have regularly anchored NBC's three major news programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News and Meet The Press. He is now a special correspondent for NBC News and a documentary producer and anchor.

Brokaw is also the author of the best seller The Greatest Generation and is currently climbing best-seller charts with his latest book, The Time of Our Lives.

The awards will be presented on Saturday, Jan. 21st at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City as part of a show honoring the best in radio, television, and internet broadcast journalism in Southern California. The Golden Mikes are presented annually by the Radio & Television News Assn. of Southern California, the non-profit group representing broadcast newsrooms in Los Angeles, San Diego, and all of the other markets from Bakersfield south to the Mexican border.

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Anonymous December 31, 2011 2:41 pm (Pacific time)

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Regarding the below comments by Tom Brokaw, I am pretty sure the Kurds would back up the reality of the WMD warnings begun by Bill Clinton (reported as fact by Brokaw), and the senate democrats before Clinton left office claiming WMD's were in Iraq, and were being used to kill thousands. Otherwise the dump on Bush is a political distraction that honest people know as being untrue. "Tom Brokaw: President Clinton Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD." Brokaw:" Saddam Hussein really had the iron fist over that entire country, had an enormous military that was there. I was in Iraq several times before the war began, and the sheer terror of people in the streets of Iraq afraid to talk to you in any way because they didn't know whether they would be eliminated and the kind of terror techniques that he unleashed on people, the most innocent people in Iraq for the smallest, slight however he perceived it. So those are two different circumstances. The former NBC anchor went on to recount the reasons people believed Iraq had WMD: A lot of people believed that he did have weapons of mass destruction. President Clinton did, in fact. I was over there with the U.N. weapons inspector and it was not clear. I would fly over later acres and acres and miles and miles of what they call igloos. These are ammunition storage depots, and General Petraeus said to me one day, "We don't know what's in there." Well, it turns out not much because he was trying to kind of rope a dope Iran, trying to persuade Iran that he had weapons of mass destruction. And my own belief is that some of his colonels generated a lot of paper that indicated they had weapons, they were getting money from him, and some of that money may be stored away somewhere. Brokaw related evidence that the Iraqi dictator had tried to deceive Iran into believing he possessed WMD, and noted that the people of Iraq lived in "sheer terror" and were afraid to talk to the NBC anchor when he visited the country during Saddam Hussein's reign. Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2011/12/15/tom- brokaw-president-clinton-thought-saddam-hussein-had-wmd#ixzz1i9cOW1xQ

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