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After watching the TV coverage of the Republican Convention, I think the G.O.P. should demand equal time with that given to Cronkite, Chancellor, Rather, Utley, Brinkley, Walters, Brokaw, et al. I'm surprised we were permitted to hear all of Reagan's acceptance speech...
...limb by checking their facts a bit harder before going public. Network reporters who did seek confirmation of the rumors seemed not to hear when their interview subjects expressed doubts. In the end, it was NBC, which got scooped on the Ford boomlet, that had to backtrack least. David Brinkley congratulated his floor correspondents at the evening's end: "I think you were alone, alone in not being taken...
...Today's regular hosts, describes the day's events-half smiling here at the absurdity of Western posturing on the Afghanistan question, curling his lip there to show contempt for U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. The commentator is low key but sardonic, a bit like David Brinkley. But Dunayev differs from his U.S. colleagues in one significant respect: he works for the state, which he considers a fine employer. Says he: "The means of information should not be owned by a group of private individuals who happen to be rather rich and could misuse them...
...merely lost control of his history, but might never regain it." That feeling permeated the New Hampshire campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Seeing a chance to "change the world, rearrange the world" and drive Lyndon Johnson back to the ranch, hundreds of student supporters invaded the state. Huntley-Brinkley brought Vietnam home every night in living color, and the McCarthy kids knocked on doorfronts to remind New Hampshire that now was the chance to stop it. The Johnson write-in effort functioned in a stupor; McCarthy's army--which the Senator bemusedly termed "the government-in-exile"--pulsed with energy. "Those...
...Muskie's meager 46%. " 'Unexpected' is one of the words reporters use to cover their mistakes," says Political Columnist Richard Reeves. "Did the voters do something they didn't expect to do on Election Day? Of course not." Adds NBC's David Brinkley: "In the end, a candidate either gets votes or doesn't. All the expecting in the world can't change that...