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...When Anchorman Ted Koppel conceived the show, he did not intend it as a counterbalance to the visceral terrors of The Day After. The linkage was natural, however. Explains Koppel: "What The Day After makes no attempt to do is to show how a crisis evolves. One is left with the impression that everything happens very quickly-boom, boom, boom, there's the crisis and here come the missiles. There's no sense that leaders made any effort to resolve the crisis...
INJURED. Jerry Dunphy, 62, $450,000-a-year anchorman of Los Angeles' most popular local news program (KABC-TV's Eyewitness News); when four gunmen in an Oldsmobile pulled alongside his Rolls-Royce convertible and opened fire on him and his companion, Studio Makeup Artist Sandra Marshall, 36; in Hollywood. Dunphy, who is resting comfortably in the hospital, was struck by a bullet in his neck and one in his left arm; Marshall was shot in her right arm. At week's end no motive for the ambush had been discovered...
...demotion of Roger Mudd as anchorman on NBC News [Aug. 8] reinforces my opinion that David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman would never be hired if they were starting out today. They are not pretty enough...
DIED. Frank Reynolds, 59, scrupulous, committed anchorman of ABC's World News Tonight; of viral hepatitis complicated by bone cancer; in Washington. A veteran of Chicago's competitive local journalism, Reynolds joined ABC in 1965 and covered the White House and other major beats before co-anchoring the evening news from 1968 to 1970, returning to that chair again in 1978. Widely respected by colleagues for his honesty, fairness and rectitude, he often brought an emotional edge to his work: showing pain at the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and sudden rage when he received conflicting reports...
...presidential campaign, concentrating on cover age by U.P.I. and United Press International. "We went through CBS and U.P.I. copy Line by line, checking for any telltale signs of partisanship. The results do not support theories of liberal bias. CBS and U.P.I, passed with honors." Rather was not yet the anchorman, but looking back at his campaign coverage, Robin son finds Rather was more analytical than Cronkite but "not necessarily more liberal." Robinson is far from a delirious fan of the press, which he considers "sensational at times, petty on occasion, superficial almost always," but does believe professionals most voting issues...