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...medley relay, we did a flip-flop with a couple of swimmers," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday. For Harvard, George Keim swam the butterfly portion instead of Hess Ynetma and Wes Raffel was the anchorman in place of Keim...
Understandably, none of the newsmen Wallace interviewed admitted that cushy treatment could affect his judgment. Indeed, Wallace notes that some prominent journalists who have gone junketing in the past-including CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite-"scoff at the notion that their reporting can be bought." But even if all reporters were invulnerable to blandishment, the venerable practice of junketing would still be a sticky problem. Wallace asks whether the suspicion that journalists are being influenced by favors is not enough to damage press credibility-especially at a time when the press is investigating unethical behavior in other places, including the White...
Francis did take first in the 1000-yard run, coming in at a strong 2:12. But as anchorman in the two-mile-relay, he could only slice off 40 yards of an insurmountable Crimson lead, to give Harvard an easy five points with six seconds to spare...
...complained. "He lobbed the ball slowly down the middle of the plate, stood there with a half-smile on his mustachioed face while Cox knocked every one over the fence. It was a case of the interviewee being ten times more intelligent than the interviewer." Clawson also rapped the anchorman's selection of interview subjects: "Cronkite has done only three interviews this year-Archie Cox, John Dean and Daniel Ellsberg. Some balance, huh?" (The Ellsberg segment was actually aired on June 23, 1971; late last week Cronkite added new Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to this year's tally...
Snyder began his career at NBC news in Philadelphia. When he moved to an anchorman's role in Los Angeles, Philadelphia's station was bombarded with protests from viewers--mostly female, mostly suburban--who had grown accustomed to his easy humor and pleasant informality during even the gravest news. In Los Angeles, his clowning has drawn some professional criticism but he continues to receive high ratings. Ironically, Snyder has created an image of being relaxed in a news format and aggressive on his talk show...