Word: anchorman
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...explanations are heard. One is the reassuring personality of whoever is the viewer's favorite anchorman. The second is the visual appearance of actuality-even when what is shown on television is an edited, or staged, reality. Reuven Frank, the crusty, capable veteran news producer at NBC, regrets that nowadays "what television does uniquely, the transmission of experience-what was it like?-is a rare and accidental accomplishment. Television has become something to listen to from the next room. So has television news." Frank scorns "split screens and zooms and star bursts and insets and flip-overs" to give...
...Moscow; correspondents interviewed everyone from Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to a raw recruit getting his flowing locks shorn into a G.I. cut (asked why he had joined the Army, he replied laconically, "Can't find no jobs"). Walter Cronkite, in his first reportorial appearance since retiring as anchorman of the CBS Evening News, journeyed to Moscow and brought back some Soviet TV footage never before seen in the U.S. One sequence depicted draftsmen, incongruously garbed in what looked like chefs' aprons and hats, drawing up what appeared to be missile blueprints (the Soviets refused to specify what...
...Washington-based Anchorman Frank Reynolds was in Manhattan to attend his son's graduation from the Columbia School of Journalism. He heard the news as he arrived at the Park Lane Hotel: "A total stranger ran up to me and said, 'Don't get out of the car! Go to work! The Pope's been shot!' " CBS Anchorman Dan Rather was attending a breakfast meeting with network affiliates in Los Angeles when Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin tapped him on the shoulder. Rather raced to the nearby CBS bureau, where a satellite link with...
...Rome. In the minutes that followed the first bulletin, CBS-TV, then ABC and NBC interrupted soap operas and game shows with special reports that echoed painfully in the memory. Journalists were dismayed by the similarity with the shooting of President Reagan just six weeks earlier. Said ABC-TV Anchorman Ted Koppel: "We have all too much experience with this kind of story...
...among law-enforcement agents and on Capitol Hill, where an aide to Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker passed it on to reporters. CBS Correspondent Jed Duvall reported the story on the air, with Rather noting that it was not from official sources. Then, after being handed a note, the anchorman said that Brady had died and asked for a moment of silence. A.P. Reporter Maureen Santini asked White House Press Aide David Prosperi if he would find out whether the rumors were true - at just about the same time that ABC's Bill Greenwood was asking if Brady...