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Negro Comedian Bill Cosby wisecracking about the culinary problems of primitive man. David Brinkley speculating on how J.F.K. would have handled Viet Nam. Frank Sinatra "dooby-dooby-doing" through Strangers in the Night. That combination would be pretty good radio fare in St. Louis or Atlanta. But to foreign listeners from Asadabad to Zamboanga, accustomed for years to more somber programming, the Voice of America's swinging new broadcasting format sounds almost as far out as a piccolo solo by Lyndon Johnson...
...German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley had turned against their party...
...Unlike Huntley and Brinkley, Walter Cronkite has no need of "sly side comments" to get his opinion across. The alert viewer can immediately detect his views on any given story by observing his facial expression at the conclusion of an on-the-scene report...
...hands a commodity of indefinable power and, inevitably, incalculable value, the networks are putting more time, money and ingenuity than ever into their news programs. Both CBS and NBC now allot about one-quarter of their programming to news and public affairs, ABC somewhat less. The Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports, which used to run for only 15 minutes, were increased to a half-hour in 1963; and ABC's Peter Jennings with the News will go to a half-hour this January. Together, the three networks will spend $148 million on news this year-their budgets have been...
After that debacle, along came Huntley-Brinkley with their breezier approach to the political conventions of 1956. "I was the old hand," says Cronkite, "but they received the critical attention." To make matters worse, by the 1964 conventions, the network competition was out of hand. Lugging their equipment with them, TV reporters swarmed over the convention floor. Quiet and restrained, Walter Cronkite tended to get lost in the crush. CBS executives became so panicked by the Huntley-Brinkley ratings that they rigged Cronkite with a new headset-one earphone tuned to the podium, the other to the control room. Their...