Word: anchors
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...power behind the Kennedy name was never more apparent than in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis last week. CBS Morning News Anchor Maria Shriver, 30, daughter of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, had made it clear that she wanted her wedding to Austrian-born Actor-Businessman Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38, to be a traditional--and very private--affair. So the Shrivers and Kennedys exerted all their considerable influence to maintain tight security, stymie gossip columnists and keep journalists at a distance. Items...
...piece, Rather throws an on-camera question at him. Martin is ready with an answer, but the impression lingers with the viewer that only the anchorman had the perception to see that the point needed making. Presumably this time-consuming gimmick, used increasingly by the networks, makes the anchor look as though he is on top of the story...
...anchor and writer for 14 years at ABC and NBC, Linda Ellerbee achieved her own kind of fame as a television personality--outspoken, irreverent and insightful. She was a real-life Murphy Brown, and the rumor was that she inspired the sitcom. This month Ellerbee, 60, comes out with a new book, Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. She spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS about an array of topics, from women in TV news to her battle with cancer...
...television news today than it was when I started. There is no question about it, and the pay is better. It will be interesting to see--now that Dan [Rather] has left, and Tom [Brokaw] has left, and Peter [Jennings] is off at least temporarily--after the all-male anchor troika, whether any of those people are replaced by women...
...think it will be a single anchor. There are not a lot of programs on television news where there's just one anchor and it's a woman. As far as I know, Nick News [a children's program on Nickelodeon that Ellerbee has anchored for 14 years] may be the longest-running program on national television anchored solely by a woman. I'm lucky. I have a really smart audience. They don't care how old I am. Anyone over 20 looks old to them...