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...Peter Jennings used two of them in an opening paragraph on Super Tuesday. So did CBS's Dan Rather. NBC's Tom Brokaw employed a couple of them too, and his colleague Roger Mudd followed with a whole string. The popular words and phrases were variations on that old stand-by of political reporting, the expectations game-this candidate did better or worse "than expected," that candidate "had to" win here or capture some specified percentage of the vote there-and they set the tone for the evaluation of the evening's results. In a nomination battle...
...news media as unified into an almost conspiratorial entity, the commentary was confounding. On the crucial question of which candidate had the most cause to cheer, the networks could not agree even 24 hours later. NBC played the story on Super Tuesday night as a big comeback for Mondale. Brokaw referred to him as "alive and well tonight in this race." He was even a bit flippant about Gary Hart, comparing him to "this season's hit rock-'n'-roll single." But in its newscast the next evening, the network said, in a classic left-handed compliment...
Network Anchormen Peter Jennings of ABC, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS coincidentally arrived from New York City aboard the same plane; Rather rode coach, while his fellow millionaires went first-class. The three networks sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into...
...among others, the CBS-owned station in Chicago. As the tape finished, Anchor Jacobson apologized: "I am sorry, that film should not have been shown. It was inappropriate." NBC chose not to air similar footage its crew shot at a Marine's home in California. Said Anchor Tom Brokaw: "We looked at it and said, 'That is a blatant intrusion,' and we did not put it on." Nevertheless, the footage had been shot. Indeed, nearly every local TV station in America airs comparably intrusive interviews with the survivors of fires, auto accidents and other calamities that...
Perhaps Savitch was beginning to sense that she might never be fully admitted to the magic circle: Rather, Brokaw, Jennings. But she did not relent. Last year the newscaster published a Pollyanna autobiography, Anchorwoman, that seemed like an extended press release. Says Barbara King, who helped her with the book: "She thought if she could renew the old glory, one of the networks would offer a bigger and better job." None did, but a new deal with NBC reportedly raised her salary to nearly $500,000; the network was considering her as a substitute on Today during Jane Pauley...