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...worried that these candidate Q-and-A sessions have supplanted regular newscasts with something less rigorous journalistically. The carping seems misguided. The citizen forums have not replaced the news; they have replaced other forms of campaigning. What's more, they compare favorably with more mainstream TV-news venues. When Barbara Walters talked with Bush on 20/20 not long ago, the encounter was so carefully stage-managed that her earnest voice-over ("The President's greeting was warm, his desk clear") sounded like parody. ABC's Peter Jennings aired a prime-time special last week on Perot, but the rehash...
...Keyser (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Robert B. Stevens (Assistant Editors); Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau...
Associate Editors: William R. Doerner, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill...
Administration: Helga Halaki, Barbara Milberg...
Bush's network of family and family retainers also piled on. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Perot's "paranoia knows no bounds," while drug czar Bob Martinez labeled Perot "not fit to be President." Casting off her grandmotherly pose, Barbara Bush called Perot's behavior "bizarre" and traced his ire at her husband to the fact that Bush had spurned a job offer from Perot 25 years ago. By the end of the week, Vice President Dan Quayle was referring to the diminutive Texan as "Inspector Perot...