But after he spent 10 years on the board of CBS, where he chafed at the cuts that the network's chairman, Laurence A. Tisch, had made in a once-generous news budget, more and more of his broadcast work appeared on CNN, National Public Radio and elsewhere, not CBS.
Newspaper Web sites, which commonly post articles from sister publications, wire services and even blogs, have typically stopped short of providing generous doses of news from competitors.
At the country club level, it is a sport played by the elite and one that often enjoys generous coverage by the news media elite.
That last piece of revision was made poignant by the breaking news that Generous had died at the age of 25.
In the first part, Raskin described Murdoch's style: Murdoch had built up a press empire spanning three continents on a sensationalist foundation of crime news and generous displays of female flesh.
We're talking intimate in the emotionally impressionable if distracted, pajama-changing, kid-wrangling, coffee-brewing, work-prepping sense, when viewers for those shows (mostly women, don't you know) are said to want a tiny serving of hard news, a generous dollop of gossip and entertainment blabbedy-blab, a garnish of kitchen tips and a gulp of weather forecast.
It's a generous gift; it's interesting news.
That revenue pays for the news operation's generous employee benefits and underpins Mr. Bloomberg's $25 billion fortune.
Mr. Levy himself was more generous, saying that yesterday's news "bodes well for Chancellor Klein's reforms".
The most generous employers are the American news organisations They have been in London for weeks, with between 150 and 200 employees on the ground.
Ordinary Gazans are particularly frustrated, he said, because they have seen news reports about generous donations from around the world stuck just outside the enclave.
