Word: anchormanly
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Rather disparages "quick fixes" like the theft of Ellis from channel 5. His 1977 book, The Camera Never Blinks, acknowledges that for many stations, "If your ratings are low, (you) just go across town and hire the other station's anchorman." He strongly opposes this ploy, saying "the feeling is that what counts is what is on the marquee, not the integrity of your news," and argues that, in the long run, superficial facelifts do little to boost ratings...
...news director, or both: a fellow or gal who knows the city like a book, likes the city, warts and all, and plans to raise a family there." But won't viewers turn away from ordinary-looking anchormen? No, says Uncle Walter. Of even a rumpled, pot-bellied greying anchorman, he says, "I'll guarantee you this: he knows more about your town and what makes it tick than ever will be learned by some young fellow from 500 or 1000 or 2000 miles away that some consultant tells you got good ratings there." In fact, he says, "That slightly...
Last week Ronald Reagan tried to reach out and touch someone. Dan Rather. The President was alone in his White House study last Tuesday evening watching the 6:30 Baltimore telecast of the CBS Evening News when Anchorman Dan Rather introduced one segment of the network's coverage by saying, "Taken together, Mr. Reagan has now reversed policy and infuriated conservative members of his own party on two scores: first the tax increases, now China." With that, recalls one White House adviser, the President "went through the ceiling." He telephoned Aides Michael Deaver and James Baker...
...Anchorman Dan Rather notes that, ironically, Israel would probably have suffered less criticism if it had simply refused to open its transmission facilities from the start. (Indeed, last week Israel realized it had stumbled into a no-win situation and withdrew its transmission services for all foreign bureaus in Beirut.) Sums up CBS's Sauter: "We are subject to far more serious censorship in many places around the world, but it is often subtle and hard to demonstrate. The Israelis are direct. When we have to submit to the process that Israel imposes, we owe it to our viewers...
...visual product as it was designed to be seen, visually, with action and sound," says Madden, who shows up as a sort of visual product himself, neatly suited out and playing host on the show like an anchorman cut loose from his moorings. He remains unflappable, unfazed in the face of a blitzkrieg lecture on the ratings by a house expert ("Gimme a Break's sort of a joke, Taxi's O.K., fair, Devlin hasn't occurred yet, the long range is good for ABC . . .") and commendably noncommittal when the president of Showtime drops in to plug...