Word: anchors
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...enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me"?) plays the indefatigable correspondent Al Freundlich as a mixture of Jeff Greenfield's best-boy-in-class earnestness and Sam Donaldson's bouncy intensity. In this week's premiere, under the mistaken impression that he's replacing narcissistic anchor Pearce McKenzie (appealingly pompous Robert Foxworth), Freundlich orders up the Pope as his first guest and decides to jettison his longtime producer Gale (Megyn Price). He presents his Machiavellian decision as a favor to her. "You work here, what? 9 a.m. to midnight. When you go home, who's waiting...
...Crimson returns three starters to what must rightly be called the Ancient Eight's best outfield. Harvard's defensive anchor and defending Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Brian Ralph, will patrol centerfield and pull down superlatives from around the League for his leather...
With a tearful tribute to his broadcasting hero, Dan Rather, the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, accepted the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism last night at the ARCO Forum...
...competitors, including NBC NightlyNews anchor Tom Brokaw and ABC World News Tonightanchor Peter Jennings, chartered planes bound forWashington, D.C., Rather said competitive pressuremotivated him to leave Cuba. "The voice of TVreason either says you're out of your mind [if youdon't go to Washington] or you're smokingsomething expensive down there," Rather quipped...
...ubiquitous political gimmick, practiced by candidates nationwide. Perfected in the President's 1992 campaign, the format is familiar to anyone unlucky enough to own a TV. A television studio--or a hall outfitted like a TV studio--is filled with a carefully screened audience. A local television anchor, his hair perfectly in place, serves as master of ceremonies. The candidate, or President as the case may be, wanders the stage looking thoughtful, pensively wagging his wireless microphone. The people speak, the candidate listens. And then he responds with perfectly scripted spontaneity. Concerns are addressed, issues are aired, dialogue is facilitated...