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Bernie’s Time Machine: TV's Big Mouths

“If they gave out Nobel Prizes for big mouths, Morton Downey would be doing his show from Stockholm.”In 1989 for CBS News’s 48 Hours, I traveled to the NATPE convention in Houston, Texas, where popular syndicated TV shows were marketed to local stations. In my first of three segments at the convention, I talked to two popular daytime Trash TV stars of the era: Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera — both of whom insisted they were giving American…
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bernardgoldberg.com broke the news on Thursday, July 9, 2026.
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