
Meet Walter Winchell, the columnist, radio commentator and TV personality who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip driven, politically charged journalism that dominates today. At his peak, his audience was 50 million – two out of three American adults. “He was not only present at the creation of modern journalism,” says interviewee/biographer Neal Gabler, “but in many respects he was the creation.”
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