Talk:Geraldo Rivera

NPOV
I have protected this article because of recent vandalism. However, in looking through the page, it appears to be pretty heavily biased. The bit about the Al Capone vault is quite mocking, and almost all of the information in the "Career" section is pretty negative, though factual. – GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:45, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * A lot of this is pretty "heavily" written, with details and weighting that seems to reflect a negative opinion of Rivera. I've taken a crack at the vault section which seemed overly long and determined to demonstrate something about the incident. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 04:17, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Concurred. Although accurately cited, much of the material in the latter sections read as a "Controversy" section as opposed to a cohesive biography.  It would be better suited to remove the unnecessary one-liners and meld the remainder cleanly. - Dasgravyboat (talk) 15:57, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I expected to find something on the vault. It's one of the main things that I knew about him. I was thinking it might be notable enough for a section; for many people it marked a turning point for him. Actually.. It's notable enough for it's own page. Scrubbing any mention of it is massive overkill. He's done the smart thing and owned it. He even hosts the video on his site, and it was great for his career. I wouldn't feel too bad about it. 2605:6000:EA51:3700:756D:270:E01:2656 (talk) 03:57, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

Early stages
Maybe someone with better research skills than I can verify that Geraldo's nationally televised report on Willowbrook appeared on ABC's Dick Cavett late-night show. ABC's 20/20 & Nightline programs appeared much later; Nightline growing out of the 1979 hostage crisis at the American embassy in Teheran, Iran. 138.162.128.54 (talk) 15:37, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

WABC local show
A press release states that Geraldo's radio show is only on WABC and the internet but is a "local" show. I'm not sure what is an acceptable secondary source to cite. Fotoguzzi (talk) 22:48, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Last name Riviera?
"Gerald Michael Riviera (born July 4, 1943), better known as Geraldo Rivera ... Rivera was born [...] the son of Lillian (née Friedman), a waitress, and Cruz "Allen" Rivera ..."

Where does the last name "Riviera" come from if his father's name was Rivera and his mother's Friedman?--46.223.21.230 (talk) 14:31, 11 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Answered. See footnote 10.


 * Billmckern (talk) 17:43, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) The snopes.com article cited quotes Rivera as saying, "When I was born, my mother filled in my birth certificate with the name Gerald Riviera, adding an extra "i" to my father's surname. She did the same thing for my sister Irene. Later, she would drop the pretense for my sister Sharon, only to pick it up again with the birth of my baby brother Craig. Whenever we asked about the inconsistencies, she would shrug shyly and joke her way out of it. "I just forgot how to spell it," she would say, and leave it at that. Underneath, I came to realize, she was deeply embarrassed over what was a clumsy attempt at an ethnic cover-up." - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 17:45, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Either that or their fathers were different and that is why she misspelled their names! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.24.74.10 (talk) 23:52, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Stateside Puerto Rican
Rivera clearly is a Stateside Puerto Rican, as indicated by well sourced information in the article. Sundayclose (talk) 01:14, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

Missing Hispanic categories
Shouldn't Rivera, who is included in List of Puerto Ricans, be in a number of Hispanic people categories, including Category:Puerto Rican lawyers and Category:Puerto Rican television journalists ? ☆ Bri (talk) 21:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)