![]() But then there has never been a reporter quite like Keith Morrison. Correspondents don’t typically invite impersonations either, but Morrison has had plenty, most famously Bill Hader on “Saturday Night Live.” And no other correspondent has prompted Buzzfeed to post 19 reasons why he is “Television’s Greatest Gift to Mankind” as it did about Morrison. Morrison has scads of them, including Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba and Lindsay Lohan. But for all that, the 69-year-old is not only busier than ever (“Dateline” filled 150 hours on NBC last year), he’s also suddenly achieved a kind of rock star cult status.Ĭorrespondents don’t typically have fans. ![]() It’s practically impossible to avoid it completely unless you’re spending all your time on a farm, but just to keep it to a minimum.The 6-foot-2, gaunt and copiously white-haired “Dateline” correspondent has been reporting for nearly 40 years, and he has seen and done just about everything - from hosting a morning show to anchoring the news to covering the protests in Tiananmen Square. I try to avoid packaged products when I can and I stick to things that I know haven’t been touched that much along the way. Maybe it’s full of sugar, maybe it’s crazy high in sodium - you just don’t know. Maybe it’s a good thing, maybe it’s not a good thing. ![]() The best wellness advice I’ve received: Jack would practically shout - and it would have to be modified for a world in which you refer to “people” as opposed to men or women - he’d say: “If man made it, don’t eat it.” That’s really good advice, because just about anything that comes in a package has been modified in some way. I don’t have the same difficulty distancing myself from my work as maybe some people do. When I’m not doing a story about a crime, I’m thinking about something else. It probably has something to do with the fact that for most of my career, I wasn’t a crime reporter - I did all kinds other stuff, so I had many different sorts of interests. it doesn’t tend to carry over into bedtime: When it’s time to relax, it’s time to relax, move on to something else. How I deal with the stress of my job: You’d think it would affect a person more than it does. I met him, oh gosh, he was 75 back then … I asked him, “What do you do, you’re on the road all the time, there’s all this crappy food around, how do you stay healthy and keep reasonably fit?” because he looked terrific. I would add only one thing, something I actually heard Mike Wallace say once. Those kind of sunk in, and I’m careful about what I eat. Jack had his “Lalannisms,” as he called them, and they were really not so much about the kind of exercise you should do, they were about diet, they were about nutrition. I walk as much as I can, I try not to overeat, I follow the advice of the great Jack Lalanne, who I used to do stories about for years. How I stay healthy on the road: I think luck mostly. Sometimes when I brush my hair I have to whack it with something to make sure it doesn’t blow around in the wind. My skin-care and hair-care routine: In a word: nothing. Everybody gets anxious or worked up sometimes, but I just don’t seem to as much as many people do. ![]() I think that probably is as useful a tool as anything else. My wife calls me the Buddha, not because I necessarily have a wonderful philosophy about life, just because things don’t bother me a whole lot. Wellness, to me, is: I’m not one of those people who frets about wellness a lot. My morning routine is so varied - you never know where you’re gonna be - but, when I’m at home, I get a cup of tea for my wife and I and we’ll read the paper and take the dog for a walk. How I start my mornings: I always hope to wake up alive, and if I’ve done that …. Ahead of Friday’s episode, we spoke to Morrison on how he separates himself from the dark stories he works on and his refreshingly laid-back views on wellness. Despite his demanding schedule traveling around the country to cover grisly cases, at 69 years old, the Canadian broadcast journalist looks as youthful as ever. NBC’s Dateline has been satisfying the nation’s obsession with true crime for 25 seasons now, with correspondent Keith Morrison serving as the familiar face - and voice - of the show for nearly as long. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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