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Philly news veterans remember Larry King as a civil, ‘everyman’ interviewer who should be emulated

“He was a product of a different era when the role of a talk show host was to be a conversationalist and not a practitioner of the incendiary and the divisive,” Michael Smerconish wrote.

Larry King answers reporters' question at a press conference for Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul, South Korea, in this May 2011 photo. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87 in Los Angeles.
Larry King answers reporters' question at a press conference for Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul, South Korea, in this May 2011 photo. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87 in Los Angeles.Read moreLee Jin-man / AP
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