Newsman Schieffer signs off for last time
Bob Schieffer
WASHINGTON — Bob Schieffer won’t see you next Sunday when CBS’ “Face the Nation” airs with a new lineup of politicians and pundits.
He moderated his final broadcast Sunday after 24 years, ending a journalism career that started at age 20 at a radio station in Fort Worth, Texas.
During the show, the 78-year-old Schieffer said he tried to “remember that the news is not about the newscaster, it’s about the people who make it and those who are affected by it. I’ll be honest, I’m going to miss being in the middle of things.”
He said he would never forget the trust that he said viewers placed in him and “how nice you were to have me as a guest in your home over so many years.”