Word: barretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely female audience (66%, vs. 55% for Today and 47% for Morning), the show set out to provide women with advice and information they need to run a household-a kind of Family Circle of the air. Helen Gurley Brown addressed the problems of working women; Rona Barrett dished up as much of the Hollywood dirt as ABC'S lawyers would let her get away with; and mixing hysteria with sensationalism in equal measure, Geraldo Rivera provided a kind of television version of the National Enquirer. Holding it all together was amiable David Hartman. Says ABC Vice President Squire...
...that, but the home has not always been happy. Former staffers tell stories of intense backbiting. "I've never met so many people hi one place who had so little integrity," recalls one of them. "They had a dart board with a picture on it of Rona Barrett, and they would throw darts at it and make insulting remarks about her. Then when she called, they'd be all sweetness and light." The columnist, a breathless, electronic update of Louella Parsons, Hollywood's gossip queen of the '40s, left the show last September for Today, where...
...Laurence Barrett's pre-election piece on Candidate Ronald Reagan [Oct. 20] was a slick hatchet job, and you know it. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves for printing it disguised as an objective look...
Your story on "The Real Reagan" did it. Why didn't you just editorially endorse him? Barrett glosses over Reagan's fatal flaws so handily that the "real" Ronald Reagan came across as the answer to all our problems...
Reported by Laurence I. Barrett...