Geraldo Rivera

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Geraldo Rivera (2010)

Geraldo Michael Rivera (born July 4, 1943 in Brooklyn ) is an American lawyer , journalist , author , reporter and television host . Since 2005 he has been leading the show Geraldo at Large on the Fox News Channel .

Life

His mother Lillian Friedman was an Ashkenazi waitress, his father Cruz "Allen" Rivera (1915–1987) a Puerto Rican taxi driver. From 1961 to 1963 he attended the State University of New York Maritime College , where he was a member of the rowing team. He received his JD from Brooklyn Law School in 1969 . He is a member of the Jewish Fraternity Tau Delta Phi .

While working as an attorney for a group of New York Puerto Rican activists, he caught the attention of news producer Al Primo , who offered him a job as a reporter. In the summer of 1970 he briefly attended Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism .

Geraldo Rivera started out at WABC-TV in New York City as a reporter for Eyewitness News . In 1972 he garnered national attention and won a Peabody Award for his report on the neglect and abuse of mentally disabled patients on Staten Island . After seeing Lennon Rivera's account of the Willowbrook patients, John organized a benefit concert with Rivera, "One to One," which was released in 1986 as Live in New York City .

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, several media outlets falsely reported that he had died of a heart attack . Rivera examined Presley's medication prescriptions and concluded that he died from drug use. As a result, Tennessee medical regulators later revoked George C. Nichopoulos' approval for overprescribing.

Rivera went to Afghanistan with his brother Craig, who worked as a cameraman, to report on the US war against the Taliban. In 2001 he reported that he was in the immediate vicinity of a friendly fire incident. In fact, he was 300 miles from the incident. Rivera downplayed this as a minor misunderstanding.

In 2003 Rivera was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq during the American war against the country. During a live broadcast on Fox News, he began drawing the U.S. Army's operational plan in the sand for the audience. The military accused him of risking the lives of soldiers. Rivera was expelled from Iraq. In 2005, Rivera was in a dispute with the New York Times . This reported that Rivera had pushed away a member of an emergency team in connection with Hurricane Katrina in order to make a report. Rivera threatened to sue.

In 2007, Geraldo was in a heated argument with his Fox colleague Michelle Malkin . Malkin said she won't be returning to O'Reilly Factor . Fox News did not manage the argument with Geraldo well. In an interview with the Boston Globe he said: “Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors and we should be deporting people. " ( Michelle Malkin is the most hideous, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life. She actually believes neighbors should be spying on each other and we humans should be deported ). He also said, “It's good she's in DC and I'm in New York. I'd spit on her if I saw her. " ( It's good that she is in Washington DC and I'm in New York, I'd spit on her if I saw her ). He later apologized for it.

In 2008 Rivera published a book entitled His Panic: Why Americans fear Hispanics in the US Kurt Vonnegut never mentions Rivera in a positive light repeatedly in several of his novels, including Palm Sunday and Fates Worse than Death . Rivera was married to Vonnegut's daughter Edith and divorced in 1974.

Rivera plays himself in the last two episodes of the US comedy series Seinfeld and two episodes of My Name Is Earl . He also appears in the fourth episode of the tenth season of the series South Park . He had another guest appearance in the US crime series Nash Bridges , where he also played himself as a presenter.

On March 23, 2012, Rivera attracted attention when he attributed the shooting of young Black Tray von Martin to the fact that he was wearing a hooded sweater. He later apologized for it.

In 2013, Rivera, who is a member of the Republican Party , was considering running for the United States Senate in New Jersey . Ultimately, however, he renounced it.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Fort Schuyler Maritime Alumni Association ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fsmaa.org
  3. ↑ Rivera, Geraldo
  4. ^ Urban Legend about Geraldo Rivera's name being changed from Jerry Rivers
  5. ^ Ron Powers: The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business . St. Martin's Press, New York: 1977, p. 185.
  6. ↑ "Gun-toting Geraldo under fire for the story that never was" , The Daily Telegraph , 20 December 2001
  7. ↑ Chris Plante: Military kicks Geraldo out of Iraq . CNN . March 31, 2003. Retrieved November 17, 2015.
  8. ↑ David Carr: A NATION AT WAR: COVERAGE; Pentagon Says Geraldo Rivera Will Be Removed From Iraq . In: The New York Times , April 1, 2003. Retrieved May 3, 2010. 
  9. ↑ Geraldo Rivera might sue The New York Times. In: TV Squad , September 7, 2005. Retrieved December 17, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Shanahan, Mark. “Making waves: controversial celebrity newsman Geraldo Rivera” , The Boston Globe , September 1, 2007.
  11. ↑ Malkin, Michelle. “Geraldo Rivera unhinged” , MichelleMalkin.com, September 1, 2007.
  12. ↑ npr.org
  13. ↑ MJ Lee: Geraldo Rivera: My own son ashamed of me . Politico. March 23, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
  14. ↑ The New York Times : Fox News Monitors Geraldo as He Mulls Political Office (February 4, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Rivera, Geraldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riviera, Geraldo Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, journalist, author, reporter, and television host
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn