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Television news executives grow quite defensive about newspaper critics of their coverage. "Those critics, usually 40 years or older, know they're not being misled by things said on TV but think others will be," says Richard Wald, senior vice president of ABC News. He thinks they underestimate how quickly viewers read a scene and decide that someone is playing a role or "has to say that." Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, recalls shots of hostages in a darkened spot: "Their surly answers showed they were under duress." Far from prolonging the crisis, Stringer believes that...
...sophisticated student of politics. Yet to an amazing degree he manages to set aside ego and loosen up guests with empathetic, probing but never baiting questions. "What I do best is create a sense of intimacy and comfort for the guest," says King. "Larry listens to his guests," says ABC Newsman Ted Koppel, one of his many fans. "He pays attention to what they say. Too few interviewers do that...
...accuse him of engineering a ruinous attempt at compromise on the budget. Asked his opinion of Regan, one Republican Senator rolls his eyes and mutters, "Disaster. We go down the tubes if he takes over." Republican Senator Robert Dole carefully chose his words last week on ABC's Good Morning America when asked about the job of getting a budget compromise. "We know we can't do it without Ronald Reagan," the Majority Leader said. "We could probably do it without Don Regan...
...answer to persistent requests for Reagan's precise temperature, Speakes said, "It was below a hundred yesterday. It's below 'below a hundred' today." ABC News Correspondent Sam Donaldson kept asking why reporters could not interview Reagan's doctors after they gave their briefings to the press corps. "Go fly a kite," Speakes replied to the audience. Asked if he was wearying, Speakes said, "I'm not tired, I'm just tired of you people." U.P.I. Correspondent Helen Thomas shot back, "Why don't you send in a pinch hitter who can talk...
Memories of the '60s will also be wafting out of NBC's The Motown Revue Starring Smokey Robinson. Along with contemporary musical numbers, each show will feature a salute to one year from Motown's heyday. Dick Clark's Rock'n Roll Summer Action, the lone summer entry from ABC, seems aimed at younger viewers (under eight, perhaps) but nods to an older crowd with guest appearances by such relics of the Top 40 as Jan and Dean and Paul Revere and the Raiders. The show makes another contribution to the nostalgia vogue: its mindless fun-on-the-beach antics...