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Poor taste was the occasional price of all this live television. Early on the day of the wedding, Tom Brokaw noted that Diana "appears to have very large feet." Guest Commentator and Biographer Robert Lacey piped in that Charles "has very large ears." Brokaw at one point cracked that the Welsh Guards are "a very early regal version of the Coneheads"-the daffy extraterrestrial family on NBC's old Saturday Night Live show...
...took the splendor and pageantry of the royal wedding to match, and at last to overcome, the kind of coverage Britain was getting last week on American television. The anchorman heavies (Rather, Chancellor, Walters, Brokaw) arrived early to cover the preparations, but soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...
...Lady Di's charms were offset by skinheads as indifferent to the wedding as to anything else. ABC intermixed its prattle of gowns and rehearsals with pictures of grim unemployment lines in what it captioned "The Other Britain." Britain's other big story NBC'S Tom Brokaw, looking as preppie-eager...
With Mudd in Washington and Brokaw in New York, Chancellor will occupy himself with special projects and add an Eric Sevareid-style commentary to the news several times a week beginning next April. NBC has also talked about extending the Nightly News to an hour, giving Brokaw the time and latitude to produce special reports in addition to his anchor duties. How much control Brokaw and Mudd will exert over editorial content, however, is still up in the air in NBC's front office. Brokaw is optimistic: "We're not there just to read the news...
...When Brokaw takes up his expanded duties, a new, younger generation of anchormen will mostly be in place at all three networks. Says Today show Executive Producer Steve Friedman: "It is time for the Rathers, the Brokaws, the Koppels to take the torch. Brokaw and Mudd are going to be the Huntley and Brinkley of the '80s." But CBS News President Bill Leonard cautions that after the wooing is over, friction can develop: "It's always more complicated when people get married. There's potential for a marvelous marriage-and for all kinds of trouble...