A highlight of the text are numerous transcripts of Daly’s commentaries, a staple of the newscasts he co-anchored with Fahey Flynn starting in the late ’60s. In contrast to the “happy talk” image his station projected, Daly’s smart, literate essays were evidence that his magna cum laude Yale education and world travels had not gone to waste.
“In a medium where so often the picture ignores perspective, and motion become meaning, it was a great satisfaction to harvest the riches of language, to write a little poetry, to quote a little Shakespeare,” he said in his final commentary in 1978. “Or e.e. cummings who said: ‘The reward in a job well done is having done it.’ I have done it, and I am richly rewarded.”
The Daly News is available right here at Eckhartz Press, and coming out soon via e-book at amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.
Joel will be on WGN-TV tomorrow morning (Thursday Feb. 20) at around 8:40. The Eckhartz Press staff will be on hand to take pictures and chronicle the event.
