Word: av
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role in the political process. Asks M.I.T.-based Media Critic Edwin Diamond: "Why does the press go along with him? Why not take him at his word and forget about it?" Some apparently agree, and are beginning to hit the brakes on covering every Kennedy tease. Says Executive Producer Av Westin of ABC's World News: "We don't want to end up giving him a free campaign ride...
Seabird--Jacks, 952 Mass. Av., Cambridge...
Arledge goes first-class. Given a big news budget (ABC is no longer the cheapo among network news operations), he has recently hired such good people as Av Westin, Cassie Mackin, Sander Vanocur. Impatient with all the "back to New York" cues between items, Arledge is setting up what he calls "regional anchors." The Middle East anchorman and his correspondents pass the story along from one to another like Tinker to Evers to Chance, and talk endlessly above a shifting kaleidoscope of film, whose relevance is not always explained. Looking at the new ABC Evening News these days...
...Harrier AV-8A jump jets, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago. Death toll: nine pilots. Six of the planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga...
...three networks have tossed around the idea of hiring a woman anchor, but ABC, a perennial third in the battle for audiences, has long been the most serious about it. In 1974, ABC Evening News Executive Producer Av Westin began a quiet evaluation of a number of female candidates, among them Walters, 44; Stahl, 33; Brown, 35, now stationed in London, and Liz Trotta, 39, correspondent for New York's WNBC-TV. Then Westin resigned last fall in a row with News Chief Sheehan, and the search was suspended. But the network soon commissioned Frank Magid Associates to test...