He's also been doing current interviews on the TVLand channel.

I found this about Snyder:

"I read stories out loud. That's basically what I do," he said in 1982 when he was coming back to local news in New York. "And if I may be immodest, there aren't all that many of us who do it well."

During that same interview, 25 years ago, he lamented the softening of news -- the sacrifice of hard, important information for meaningless celebrity trivia.

Snyder was not the first journalist to register this complaint, nor will he be the last, and it seems safe to speculate he might like to be remembered as an old-school journalist, a man who delivered information.

Maybe he'll get his wish.