Word: anchorman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the Vice President who ambushed a television anchorman live on the evening news, then bragged about it for weeks. That same month, Mr. Tough Guy struck again. Bush was speaking at an Iowa high school when he fielded a hostile question from a girl holding a "Jack Kemp for President" brochure. Bush seized the pamphlet and tore it to shreds...
...recognition. Within a generation, the unthinkable would be commonplace in D.C.: desegregation, Medicare, a 50-state union, peace marches, feminism. Brinkley is uniquely qualified to narrate the causes of that change. After all, in the early 1940s, what title could have been more incomprehensible than that of TV network anchorman...
...reports spoke of "rampage and violence" caused by "hooligans." As sensational rumors reverberated around the country, a Soviet government spokesman admitted to "certain injuries" and even "several" deaths in the southwestern city of Sumgait. The full extent of the carnage was only revealed at week's end, when an anchorman of the national television newscast Vremya read a four-paragraph TASS dispatch in a somber voice. "Criminal elements committed violent actions and engaged in robberies," he reported. "They killed 31 people, among them members of various nationalities, old men and women...
...each weighed in with an hour-long election special (NBC's in prime time), and CBS's 48 Hours devoted its entire hour to a behind-the-scenes look at New Hampshire campaigning. ABC, locked into Olympics coverage for most of the evening, squeezed in reports from Anchorman Peter Jennings before a half- hour wrap-up at midnight Eastern standard time. ABC's last-of-the-evening program was, bravely, the first of the political season to shun the obligatory candidate interviews. A good thing: by that time, one more round of "spin $ control" from Gephardt, Simon, Kemp...
...contretemps featuring George Bush and CBS' s Dan Rather may help the Vice President bury his "wimp" image and strengthen his Iowa campaign. -- Rather' s high- strung and combative style make him television' s most controversial anchorman. -- In the kingdom of television, there are a thousand different styles, rituals, protocols. See NATION...