A legend of local (Los Angeles) TV, Stan Chambers is retiring and I would like to second everything that Ken Levine says about the guy. For longer than I've been around, Stan's been around and you knew that if anything happened in L.A. — a big fire, a flood, a police shoot-out, anything — you had to rush to turn on Channel 5 because that's where Stan Chambers was. What's more, he would be closer to the action than any other reporter…probably the first one to get there and the last one to leave.
We've had a lot of news folks in this town who've been criticized, usually rightly, for sensationalizing the news or doing a sloppy, inaccurate job of covering it. I do not recall anyone ever faulting Stan Chambers for anything, even though he covered the highest of the high-profile stories. He also, to his credit, covered the low-profile stories with the same dogged professionalism. Wish all news people could be like that.