Sorry Charlie.....
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Arizona State University says it is taking back the Cronkite award they gave to former CBS Anchor Charlie Rose.
Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan said the school was rescinding Rose’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, which was given to him in 2015.
Callahan called the action “unprecedented” and said it was “taken with the utmost seriousness and deliberation.”
“The idea of ‘taking back’ a Cronkite Award is so foreign that the possibility was never even considered when the award was first created by Walter, the school and the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees more than 30 years ago,” he added.
Callahan said the school determined that the sexual harassment allegations made against Rose were “so egregious that they demand nothing less than a reversal of history.”
The dean said Rose’s actions of sexual misconduct “rise to that level” because the damage caused by his actions extend “far beyond the news organizations for which he worked.”
H/T KTAR
