Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today a report from an undercover narcotics officer in Florida on how crack cocaine is made," announces the pretty blond co-anchor. "And verbal judo on the traffic stop: how you can defuse a volatile situation," intones her handsome male partner over a videotape clip of a police officer approaching a car. To the beat of trendy theme music, the camera pans the posh living-room stage set -- complete with sofas, coffee table and potted plants -- before zooming in again on the two radiant hosts...
...glitzy, hour-long Roll Call airs a regular segment on the FBI's Most Wanted List that, with the aid of computer graphics, profiles suspects in various disguises -- beards, glasses and hairpieces. "We provide officers with important information when they need it -- before they hit the streets," says co-anchor Maffett, 1983's Miss America. The network also serves up half-hour instruction programs with names like Street Beat, Command Update and Alert, Alive & Well. Relying on 50 experts nationwide, the shows dish out training information on everything from shooting techniques and handcuffing methods to weight-control strategies. A twelve...
...three scorers--Andy Pritchard, DougMurray and Rob White--will anchor the offense. JoeDay also has rebounded from last season's brokenleg to bolster the Saint attack even more...
Stacked up against those three white middle-aged men was an anchor team that made a striking symbolic statement. Washington-based Bernard Shaw, CNN's leading political correspondent, is black; Catherine Crier, based at the network's Atlanta headquarters, is a woman. Inadvertently, the choice of Crier, brought in from outside in preference to 150 in-house anchors and reporters, also made a depressing statement about the abiding importance of looks and packaging in TV news. A former college beauty-contest finalist and later an elected Texas judge, Crier, 34, has no journalism experience...
...glaring error. Reading a story about alleged CIA action against foreign governments, she indicated that socialist Salvador Allende Gossens had ruled Chile "from 1963 to 1973." As any news junkie would be likely to remember, Allende came to power in 1970, amid criticism from President Richard Nixon. Co-anchor Shaw so far sounds muted in his enthusiasm. Says he: "What she's been doing has been very adequate...