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They should not look all that innocent. The media are pervasive. Americans know what they know about candidates from the press. And journalists are conspicuous-whether it is the pontificating anchorman or the pesky reporter. The modest reply, more true than not true, is that the press has about as much control over the campaign as Howard Cosell does over a football game...
...turned out, their planning went for nought. At 8:15 p.m., NBC anchorman John Chancellor looked up from his script, shook his head in amazement and told the American people that they had already elected a president--and his name was Ronald Reagan...
...Kuralt greeted the news last week that several years on the back roads of America were finally coming to an end. In the network-news world of tailored suits and perfect teeth, Kuralt, 46, has long been an anomaly. Rumpled, round and slightly balding, Kuralt looks less like an anchorman than your average TV repairman. Earlier this year, when Dan Rather, 48, emerged from the jostling pack of contenders to win Walter Cronkite's job as father figure to the TV generation, Kuralt was not even in the running. Many viewers think he should have been. When...
...format. Says he: "Mostly, the program will be ad lib. We are going to let the correspondents pretty much pick their own stories. There isn't going to be any central authority figure dispensing orders and dispatching people to this place or that." Will Brinkley be an anchorman or a host? Neither; he prefers to be recognized as the chief correspondent. Says he: "I think of a host as someone on daytime TV with a lot of flashing lights behind him who gives away washing machines, which I will...
...learn what makes broadcasters so often turn their cameras away from the podium. Networks generally acknowledge a duty to broadcast at least the keynote, the nominations, the roll calls and the acceptance-but, while carrying the words, feel free to eye gabbling or dozing delegates. So, to get the anchorman's attention, politicians-including last week the Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as Rosalynn and Lillian Carter-found themselves climbing up to those glassy network booths. So much for those who think the podium is where the convention takes place. Arriving at Walter Cronkite's aerie...