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...News broadcast the woman's name and picture Tuesday, a day after it had appeared in The Globe, a supermarket tabloid. Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, defended the decision, which NBC officials said was agreed to by anchor Tom Brokaw...
...fading verities of network news: it pays the most attention to international affairs, seems the least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post in New York City. Some viewers and critics got a charge out of watching Rather pick through Kuwaiti ammunition stocks, but as Arledge contends, "We thought Peter was better utilized here, where he could pull...
...location of Scud missile hits is forbidden. (The information could theoretically be used by the Iraqis to improve their targeting.) After a Scud attack in Tel Aviv, NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher broadcast prematurely that there were casualties; Israeli authorities retaliated by cutting NBC's satellite link. NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw had to apologize on air for the inadvertent violation before the line was restored. "We apologized for telling the truth," said NBC News president Michael Gartner later. "And that really grates...
...MEDIA ESTABLISHMENT really doesn't seem to care about the human costs of Operation Desert Storm. An NBC news commentator casually mentions that Iraqi civilian casualties number only 300 or 400 after a few days of bombing, and Tom Brokaw grunts in agreement that such losses are acceptable...
...Brokaw was envious as well as curious. "How did CNN manage to stay on the air?" he asked Bernard Shaw, the cable network's anchorman, in an unusual intermural interview. Shaw hesitated. "Let me take a pass on your question," he said. "The next time I see you I'll explain...