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...fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their primary and only source of information" and "we are inadequate to that task." It just may be the anchormen should relax a little...
...John Chancellor of NBC, however, the patterns were "very similar to 1980: there is no rebellion that we can find." Added his colleague Tom Brokaw: "The country is not moving to the left sharply or to the right sharply." Concurred Roger Mudd: "If I were Ronald Reagan reading these returns, I would probably stay the course." As the evening wore on, NBC's tone altered somewhat, but it never approached CBS's relish for Republican ruin...
...colleague Jessica Savitch, with CBS's Stahl and Diane Sawyer and with ABC'S Catherine Mackin, apparently because all are blond. Indeed, President Reagan once addressed Stahl as "Judy" at a press conference. Says Woodruff: "I do not notice many people confusing Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw." Moreover, she fears that aging will curtail her career: "Men gain credibility as they get older, but women are not accorded that treatment...
...Woodruff is returning to her first love, campaign reporting. On Election Night in November she will have the task of co-anchoring, with Mudd, Brokaw and John Chancellor, the network's evening-long coverage of Senate, House and gubernatorial races. Thereafter she will interview newsmakers on Today and ease into some coverage of her third consecutive presidential campaign. Sums up Woodruff: "I am hooked on Washington, but I have been pinned down at the White House. There is so much that I have not yet seen." Her boss, NBC News President Reuven Frank, agrees: "Judy will cover ideas...
Viewers in Charlotte, N.C., who turn the dial this week looking for Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd at 6:30 p.m. may not believe their eyes: in place of the NBC network's Nightly News, affiliate station WPCQ-TV will start airing Family Feud. And instead of the local evening-news lead-in, the station will offer Real People. Insists Lawrence Fraiberg, president of WPCQ's parent, Westinghouse Group W TV, the nation's biggest non-network station group: "This has nothing to do with our attitude toward news...