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RESIGNING. BERNARD SHAW, 60, CNN anchor who pioneered 24-hr. news coverage and was one of the Boys of Baghdad during the Gulf War; after 20 years. He will leave in February to write his autobiography...
...BERNARD TOALE GALLERY
...Peter Jennings Has Calves of Steel; Bernard Shaw Has Gravitas a Foot Thick
...good way. (Let's assume for the sake of argument it's possible for that phrase to be taken in a good way.) Thoroughness, yes. Crack, thoughtful analysts and reporters, sure. But CNN's coverage tonight lacks any sense of excitement and urgency. Bill Schneider, Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff and Jeff Greenfield, spread out along a giant desk, come across at times like four strangers laconically chatting while waiting for a bus. And though I admire the guy and hate to say it, you've gotta place some of the blame on Bernard Shaw, sheathed in his 12-inch bulletproof...
...spin out scenarios, the most popular current one being an electoral tie. Which made CNN's political analyst Jeff Greenfield, who described just such an electoral scenario in his novel "The People's Choice," something of an instant expert. It led to an inadvertently embarrassing moment though, when Bernard Shaw, evidently less than thoroughly familiar with his colleague's work, asked Greenfield, "How did the electors in your novel work out?" (Greenfield, to his credit, didn't finish his answer, "And thanks for reading it, Bernie...