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...Network's most familiar faces are fading from the screen. Last summer CNN owner Ted Turner hired former Los Angeles Times chairman Tom Johnson to shake things up. After leaving the network's on-air team alone during the gulf war, Johnson has started to do just that. Longtime anchor Mary Anne Loughlin was dismissed; veteran anchors Don Miller and Patrick Emory have not had their contracts renewed. "Johnson wants younger people who are not in the 'Ted Baxter' mode of broadcasting," says a CNN source. Turner will pay his replacements much lower salaries and use the leftover money...
...Robert Campbell, architecture critic for The Boston Globe, feels that a substantial building is needed "to anchor that end of Harvard Square," adding that he thinks the Inn "got cut down a little too much...
...News broadcast the woman's name and picture Tuesday, a day after it had appeared in The Globe, a supermarket tabloid. Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, defended the decision, which NBC officials said was agreed to by anchor Tom Brokaw...
...replaced. New boss Erik Sorenson, 35, is a graduate of local news who has spent the past 16 months running the CBS Morning News. His plans for the evening show are not yet clear, but many insiders expect that Dan Rather -- who will mark his 10th anniversary in the anchor chair this week with little fanfare -- will be shoved aside or teamed with a co-anchor within the next few months...
...least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post in New York City. Some viewers and critics got a charge out of watching Rather pick through Kuwaiti ammunition stocks, but as Arledge contends, "We thought Peter was better utilized here, where he could pull the story together...