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...Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face - the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose - seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message that middle-class values...
...HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). The dynamic duo now makes the scene six nights a week...
Like millions of others, he was awed by the martial atmosphere which brooded over the city during the convention and the brutality of Chicago's police force. But from his professional point of view--as producer of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report -- Northshield was as much disturbed by the violent reaction to NBC's coverage of Chicago...
Northshield probably has more to do with what comes out of the NBC news department than any other one man. His judgment determines exactly what Chet Huntley and David Brinkley read on the air every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce...
...used to being loved by the viewing public -- though the only viewers who probably even know he exists are the few who stay tuned to Huntley-Brinkley after the news is over to hear the snatch of Beethoven as the credits roll up the screen. Huntley and Brinkley have always been those two congenial fellows with the wry wit who make digestion a little bit easier every night after dinner. They became something quite different during the Democratic convention. Their public turned on them, criticized them, and Northshield wonders...