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Reagan commands television better than any anchorman, which enables him to go over the heads of Washington journalists. Print pundits seem to matter to the White House principally because they influence broadcasters. But Reagan dislikes press conferences and has held only one this year. He can be bothered in two ways. Unglamorous print journalists ask factual questions that can expose his ignorance. As for TV types, their questions aim for a flustered on-camera response from Reagan. Andrea Mitchell, NBC: "Can you say to those parents, now that you've withdrawn the Marines to the ships, why more than...
...there is more, the experts note, as they put the pieces together. Anchorman Dan Rather took a long look at Mondale on the CBS Evening News in September 1983. Indeed Mondale had never faded from he screen after defeat. As early as October 1981 he was back on Meet the Press, the highest Democrat available to satisfy TV's hunger for political combat. Jimmy Carter had become a virtual recluse. Mondale was, after all, the front runner. But did being first early make him first always? Certainly his pre-eminent position on the nightly news and in newspaper...
...prospect of seeing a real live network anchor on Iowa soil all that great. One of the boys at Toad's slipped in the ultimate putdown: "Watching an anchorman is like watching an astronaut in orbit: they are both weightless...
...their credit, Anchorman McKay and his colleagues rarely let the pressure show, and they made the most of what they had. Eric Heiden's commentary enabled viewers to appreciate subtle differences in style among the competitors in the women's speed skating. ABC compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game...
Moreover, the time-honored image of the reporter-sketched in The Front Page as a low-paid but high-spirited regular fellow drinking beer with the police as the city edition is put to bed-has given way to a persona shaped by television: the anchorman or anchorwoman, cool, comely, and paid far more than the President...