Word: anchorman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immediate gratification has become a hallmark of the age of mobile uplinks. "The new satellite technology is wonderful," says NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, "but it's made us hostage to our expectations that information can be instantaneous." Tuesday night was a reminder that there are limits to what even television can do when electricity and telephones and highways are knocked out. By the time most networks closed down for the night after five or six hours of coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland...
...enactment of past events is troubling enough, but CBS and anchorman Dan Rather last week faced charges that chill every newsman's heart: airing faked footage. The allegation, denied by CBS and so far unconfirmed, is that Rather's CBS Evening News unwittingly broadcast footage of war scenes in Afghanistan restaged or simulated for the cameras...
...SERVICE (HBO) An old-school TV anchorman (Paul Dooley) finds himself teamed with a shallow New Wave co-host (Griffin Dunne). Howard Korder's script for this made-for-cable movie neatly skewered television, but also located the tragedy beneath the tackiness...
...rewarded the Bush campaign for its negative strategy simply because it seems to be working. In the rarefied world inhabited by campaign operatives and reporters, successfully manipulating the process is a virtue in itself. "You said that this is a campaign not about ideology, it's about competence," NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw said to Dukakis last week. "What about the competence of the campaign...
...each broadcast. Ott considers playing tennis a "sacred activity." Not that he has much free time these days. A celebrity in his own right, he frequently travels around the country to answer questions from viewers at "creative evenings." He also manages to make an occasional appearance as anchorman on the Estonian evening news...