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...officially installs the former Today host as Tom Brokaw's substitute on the Nightly News, fueling speculation that she may someday be co-anchor...
Last week the network took a big step toward acknowledging that fact by outlining a plan that could lead to her becoming co-anchor of the evening newscast. Officially, the anchor's chair will continue to belong only to Tom Brokaw, who has held the post since 1982. But to boost ratings and, NBC said, to exploit Brokaw's skills as a reporter, the network plans to send him out on the road far more often: at least three times a month. Whenever he is away, Pauley will serve as "sub-anchor." Says Nightly News executive producer Steve Friedman...
...longer than Armand Hammer's, and had the Soviet President put on black tie, he would have blended totally with the bankers and industrialists. "Gorbachev is old friends with more than half the people here," whispered one guest as he watched him clap the arm of NBC's Tom Brokaw (who interviewed him for U.S. television) and wring the hand of Dwayne Andreas, the world's soybean king, who sells the Soviets millions in beans and grains each year...
...made it appear that Bush spends so much time greeting luminaries and other visitors that he has little time to mull over the great problems of the day. Here the White House erred badly by overdirecting: rather than making it possible for Brokaw and his crews to tape what Bush does best -- chew the fat with advisers for hours on end -- the White House allowed the cameras to record only the first three or four minutes of each meeting. These brief segments produced conversations that seemed stilted and staged...
Conveying that elusive reality in documentaries or news footage -- or in written dispatches, for that matter -- is often impossible. As press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said on Brokaw's special, the press sees only about 10% of what really goes on in the White House. Fitzwater's remark was the most candid line in the show. In view of television's continued reliance on pictures to tell the White House story, it was also the most cautionary...