5 Lessons the Media Learned From the King of Daytime Talk Phil Donahue

Television talk show pioneer Phil Donahue, who died Sunday at age 88, would always remember the day that "the whole city of Dayton came to a halt." It was 1968, and WLWD's The Phil Donahue Show was only a year old. How could an upstart talk show on a local NBC affiliate manage to interrupt...