NORTH BETHESDA, Md. — Bernard Kalb, a former tv reporter for CBS and NBC who give up his job as a State Department spokesman to protest a U.S. authorities disinformation marketing campaign towards Libya, died Sunday. He was 100.

His youthful brother, Marvin Kalb, instructed The Washington Post that his dying at his dwelling within the Washington suburbs adopted problems from a fall.

Bernard Kalb labored as a overseas correspondent for The New York Times, CBS and NBC, wrote two books together with his extra well-known youthful brother, and served as founding anchor and panelist for the CNN media evaluation present “Reliable Sources.”

Always well wearing a go well with and orange tie typically matched by an orange handkerchief, Kalb was a tireless journalist who made nearly each abroad journey with 5 completely different secretaries of state earlier than switching to the opposite aspect of the rostrum.

“You have a sense of being something of an eyewitness to the evolutions and eruptions of the decades since World War II,” he instructed The New York Times in 1984, when he grew to become a spokesman for Secretary of State George Shultz throughout the Reagan administration.

“You have a historical memory to call upon and you see the trust of American foreign policy and other foreign policy,” he stated. “And it seems to me the ability to punch up American priorities, cast of characters, issues and so forth are very valuable in this assignment.”

The disinformation marketing campaign adopted U.S. airstrikes that had hit Libyan chief Moammar Gadhafi’s compound earlier in 1986 in retaliation for a Libyan-linked terrorist assault in Germany. It was designed to make Gadhafi suppose he was about to be attacked once more. The Washington Post uncovered the marketing campaign, which the newspaper stated included leaking false data to reporters and which Kalb knew nothing about.

“I am concerned about the impact of any such program on the credibility of the United States,” Kalb stated on the time. “Anything that hurts America’s credibility, hurts America.”

New York Times columnist William Safire praised the resignation. “In his final official act, Bernard Kalb rose above ‘State Department spokesman’ to become the spokesman for all Americans who respect and demand the truth,” Safire wrote.

In 1992 Kalb grew to become the founding anchor of “Reliable Sources,” which reported on reporters and the way they dealt with tales. Co-host Howard Kurtz took over the present after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults.

In 1997 Kalb started moderating a variety of panels and lectures on the press all over the world for The Freedom Forum, a Washington-based basis dedicated to press freedom run by former Gannett Co. executives. He additionally served on a panel that monitored Israeli and Palestinian media for incitement to violence that was created as a part of the failed 1998 Wye River land-for-security accord.

Kalb was born Feb. 4, 1922, in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. His father was a tailor from Poland, whereas his mom was from the Ukraine. He attended New York City public colleges and graduated from New York’s City College.

During World War II he spent two years within the Army, working for a camp newspaper within the Aleutian Islands alongside editor Sgt. Dashiell Hammett, writer of “The Maltese Falcon” and different detective novels.

From 1946 till 1961 he labored at The New York Times, spending 4 months in Antarctica in late 1955 and 1956 to cowl Adm. Richard Byrd’s Navy expedition, Operation Deep Freeze. Later in 1956 Kalb was dispatched to Indonesia, the place he developed an enduring love for Asian antiques and porcelain.

CBS employed him away from the Times in 1962 and despatched him again to Southeast Asia, the place he was well-known. He joined his brother masking the State Department in Washington in 1975, and so they moved collectively to NBC in 1980.

At CBS Marvin and Bernard had been often known as “The Kalbs,” however Bernard lived considerably within the shadow of his youthful brother.

One broadly circulated, however apocryphal, story had their mom calling the CBS overseas desk in New York and saying: “Hello, this is Marvin Kalb’s mother. Can you tell me where my son Bernie is?” But Bernard Kalb by no means appeared in the slightest degree jealous, generally even introducing himself as Marvin’s “kid brother.”

Together they wrote an admiring 1974 biography of Henry Kissinger, “Kissinger,” and “The Last Ambassador,” a 1981 novel in regards to the fall of Saigon.

Survivors embody his spouse, Phyllis, and their 4 daughters, Tanah, Marina, Claudia and Sarinah.