Mort Crim
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Mort Crim is a former broadcast journalist. Crim was born July 31, 1937. Crim retired from anchoring TV newscasts at WDIV-TV Detroit in 1996. He also anchored at KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's World News Tonight newscast in 1978. In 1984 he hosted a technology program on PBS, New Tech Times.
Crim is also a founder of a Detroit area video-production company, Mort Crim Communications, Inc.
In addition to his anchoring duties, Mort Crim also has four syndicated editorial and news features for radio: One Moment Please (originally a television feature), News You'll Care About (a five-minute news summary), Second Thoughts and American Spirit. He was also previously a substitute anchor for Paul Harvey's daily radio programs.
Crim contributed an intro monologue to The White Stripes's song "Little Acorns," off their 2003 album Elephant.
Crim was recently diagnosed with colon cancer and had surgery to remove the tumor and a lymph node. [1]
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Doug Fraser's graphic novel, Mort Grim [2], was likely named after Mort Crim.
