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Sure I remember these. Christopher Glenn in fact, who narrated them for years, died today at 68. Easily one of the great memories of my Saturday Morning-mispent youth. I can remember seeing things about Watergate, Vietnam, the Energy Crunch, Iran, the Bicentennial, etc on this show. Really liked that weird globe and the music that went with it too.

So sure, I'm sorry to hear that Glenn died, and I fondly remember this segment.

**Groans** Oh great, we need ten lines to pad this out. Okay fine guys. That's ludicrous. I think that they should have more little segments like this.

My favorite part of Saturday mornings was not the cartoons but the "In The News" segment. It was the leading factor in my later interest in news and current events. I still use the analogy Christopher Glenn used to explain to children how inflation works. (He used baseball cards instead of money: that it would require more and more of a player's card that was heavily printed to trade for a card that was not).

Christopher Glenn's voice is so burned in my brain that when I heard him not long ago on CBS radio I recognized his voice before he said his name even though it had been 25 or 30 years since I heard him last.

Christopher Glenn's passing is a great loss.

"In the News" was sort of like a PSA produced by CBS News that ran for about 60 seconds in the middle of commercial breaks, usually on Saturday mornings during cartoons.

Each "edition" would be a feature news story - usually on a topic that would appeal to younger kids - animals, science, music, sports. Essentially, the type of stuff that you would see as the last story on the evening news.

While the stories were nice, the "music" (or more accurately, noise) that they would play at the beginning and end of each edition was extremely irritating.

If anyone else ever sees this review, I would be totally amazed.

I do remember the Saturday morning CBS News public affairs program In the News which was anchored by CBS News journalist Christopher Glenn. This show presented the news of that week in language and a format that young Saturday morning television viewers like me could understand. It surely wasn't something CBS News and Christopher Glenn had to do. It probably would have been easier to put cartoons and cereal commercials on to pad the network bottom line. But the network and Christopher Glenn stepped away from "the norm" and produced a program I believe introduced a generation of young people to current affairs, journalism, broadcasting, and government service. I am one of them.

It was obvious Mr. Glenn was dedicated to educating and informing by the painstaking effort he took to explain sometimes complicated news events in a manner easily understood by Saturday morning television viewers.

While serving as a reporter on my high school newspaper, I met Christopher Glenn at a Columbia University Conference for scholastic journalists. He was a lecturer-presenter at the event and spoke to us journalist in the making in a respectful and informative way quite similar to his television style and manner. At this conference, he provided information and advice related to being a good journalist and answering many questions about journalistic ethics and pursuits in the career. I respected him as a Saturday morning viewer of In the News and respected him even more after having met him.

In addition to his television work, Christopher Glenn was the evening anchor of CBS Radio's World News Roundup program which aired daily on CBS Radio affiliates across the country. His writing, anchoring and presentation on this program was exceptional like all the work of this news professional. When you heard the CBS News sounder opening followed by "This is the CBS News World Roundup. I'm Christopher Glenn, you knew you were going to get the best in news that day. His work, career and purpose has inspired a generation of broadcasters and journalists, including me.