Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to DemocraticU.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating.. Knowing that Dukakis opposed the death penalty, Shaw asked Dukakis if he would support an irrevocable death penalty for a man who raped and murdered his wife. Dukakis responded that he would not; some critics felt he framed his response too legalistically and logically, and did not address it sufficiently personally.
BernardShaw was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, stationed in Hawaii, when he showed his journalistic gumption and tracked down CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, who was in Hawaii doing a story on Pearl Harbor.
Shaw left the comfort of network television for the chance to be a part of television history.
Shaw immediately demanded that CNN take the air, and soon he was revealing the news that Reagan had been shot.
Shaw insists on balance in news reporting, going as far as to say that verbal quotations must be matched with the same, and that even a written statement cannot be brought to be on par with a soundbite.
Shaw recognizes the influence which media has on the public and he attributes that power with a sacred responsibility to ensure that whatever news he brings the American people is in every sense the truest, most objective fact that he can extract.
Shaw does also give his own interpretations of the facts, but he keeps this separate from the news itself, realizing that these are his personal opinions and that some would not tend to agree with him.
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