Edwin Newman dies at 91

Quickly, here's the AP and much more to come ... Some great clips below. Newman was a great sport and was happy to poke fun at himself on occasion; "SNL" was but one example, and he was a regular on "Hollywood Squares." At a certain point in our recent pop culture history - I suppose during the early '80s - he became the almost prototypical newsman who played the prototypical newsman. For example, he was on David Letterman's old morning show as an anchorman. But the news updates  he did for Dave's morning show were straight ahead and totally serious. Newman was, after all, a first-rate newsman and deeply serious about his profession. These clips will give you a flavor of that remarkable career.

  NBC News says its longtime correspondent and language cop Edwin
Newman has died. He was 91.

Newman did political and foreign reporting on various NBC News
programs during 34 years with the network, which ended with his
retirement in 1984. He also had a side career as the author of the
best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue," which dealt
with the proper use of the language.

He hosted a series called "Speaking Freely" with hourlong
conversations with notables in many fields.
After his retirement, Newman portrayed himself on various
television programs, including a "Saturday Night Live" skit where
he manned a suicide hot line and kept correcting a caller's
grammar.