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Feeding on Themselves. What ultimately separated the networks, of course, was the performance of their regulars. ABC staffers were the least authoritative and articulate. NBC, with its emphasis on the machinations of the floor, played down Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and gave the ball to its fearsome foursome of floor reporters: John Chancellor, Frank McGee, Edwin Newman and Sander Vanocur. In the continuing absence of actual news, they desperately darted from delegation to delegation, chasing down the rumors that are always the prime medium of convention exchange. TV in general not only enabled rumors to feed on themselves...
...team of 25 correspondents, including Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Harry Reasoner and Mike Wallace, will report on the opening session today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and on the evening sessions throughout the week from 7:30 p.m. to conclusion. NBC, with Anchormen Chet Huntley and David Brinkley and Floor Reporters Frank McGee, John Chancellor, Sander Vanocur and Edwin Newman, will cover opening-day sessions (9:30 a.m. to end of daytime action and 7:30 p.m. to conclusion) and portions of the week's activities live from Convention Hall. ABC will limit its coverage...
...last of France's spring strikes-that of the state-owned television industry-ended last week, or so Prime Minister Couve de Murville proclaimed to the National Assembly. But the 14 million Frenchmen who own TV sets could not really tell for sure. Paris' Huntley and Brinkley-Pierre Dumayet and Pierre Desgraupes-as well as all of the other news regulars, remained off the air. Filling in for the eighth straight week were sketchy, scab-produced newscasts and a veritable festival of test patterns, canned variety shows and film antiques...
...American rich have always felt a little guilty. As David Brinkley puts it, there is "an attitude widely held in this country (but almost nowhere else) that it may not always be sinful to have a lot of money, but it is vaguely sinful to enjoy it and unforgivably sinful to do so in public." Of course, this feeling is less a matter of morality than envy. In this wonderfully egalitarian country, the have-nots naturally demand: "Why not me?" And in politics, the voters have come to accept rich candidates, if not actually to prefer them...
...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...