Word: anchorman
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...critics of how the press has covered drug abuse would deny it is a significant problem. The debate is about matters of proportion and the proprieties of extensive, simultaneous media attention to an issue. Some journalists believe they are just responding to public concern. Says NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw: "The drug story reached critical mass. It kept building up and up in almost volcanic fashion. My own guess is that the population of users is much larger than the DEA is led to believe." Yet the debate caused some news executives to ponder whether they were having unintended impact. Acknowledged...
...Anchorman Dan Rather got word of the outcome just as he was finishing up the network's Evening News on Wednesday. The flustered Rather announced that CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman, 56, was "out." More startling was Rather's disclosure that Wyman's duties would be temporarily shared by William Paley, the network's legendary founder, who retired three years ago, and Laurence Tisch, the billionaire chairman of Loews Corp., who joined the CBS board only last October...
...News journalists, whose independence is a cherished tradition stretching back to the days of Edward R. Murrow. Adding to the outcry were complaints about efforts to jazz up -- critics said trivialize -- the division's approach to reporting the news. As discontent grew, a group of senior CBS journalists, including Anchorman Rather, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Commentator Bill Moyers, made an offer to buy the news division outright from the parent company. They were told it was not for sale...
...news division's grievances with Wyman were also raised at the dinner by Veteran Correspondent Walter Cronkite, who is a board member. The former anchorman apparently argued that the chairman was not sensitive enough in maintaining the news division's autonomy. At the end of the evening, though, a feeling persisted that the drama could end without Wyman's resignation...
...Drugs" is now a regular feature on the nightly news and the front pages. CRACK USERS' BABIES CROWDING HOSPITAL NURSERIES, blares a headline in the normally staid New York Times. The networks air two prime-time specials in a week: CBS Anchorman Dan Rather can be seen tagging along on the police bust of a crack house in New York City; NBC's Tom Brokaw earnestly questions addicts about the evils of dope. The war on drugs, like the war in Viet Nam, has been brought home to the nation's living rooms...