Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be an innovative statesman. Although he may privately have been trying only to call Sadat's bluff, the Israeli Premier accepted Sadat's proposal. The commitments were firmed up, in an extraordinary act of television diplomacy, during interviews with Anchorman Walter Cronkite on last Monday's CBS Evening News (see box). Begin thereupon summoned the Knesset to provide the necessary authorization...
While inspecting an honor guard of lancers, he suddenly glanced to his left, broke into a broad grin and roared: "Barbara, so you did come." He stretched out his hand to greet Barbara Walters of ABC. A moment later, he was shouting "Walter!" and pumping the hand of CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, whose double interview with Sadat and Begin had set the stage for the visit. Sadat clearly enjoyed the company of these media celebrities. Aboard the plane, he tweaked Walters about her much-publicized ABC contract: "Barbara, you make a million dollars a year, and my salary is only...
...When CBS News Producer Barry Lando interviewed Lieut. Colonel Anthony Herbert for a 1971 report on prisoners of war in South Viet Nam, he found the soldier too good to be true: a gung-ho, ribbon-covered lifer who was being quietly drummed out of the Army for uncovering U.S. war crimes. CBS broadcast Lando's report of Herbert's plight, and Herbert later became a talk-show hero among foes of the war; his 1973 autobiography, Soldier, hit the bestseller lists...
...Army, and concluded that the colonel was indeed too good to be true. In a half-hour 60 Minutes segment in 1973, Lando and Correspondent Mike Wallace challenged a number of Herbert's allegations, and interviewed fellow officers unable to substantiate them Herbert sued Lando, Wallace and CBS for libel, demanding that Lando answer questions about his state of mind when he prepared the program. Lando balked, and in January a judge ordered him to comply...
...working as a hospital psychologist in an undisclosed Western city, Herbert may still win his four-year-old libel suit if he can prove in some other way that CBS's allegations against him were false, damaging and recklessly made. Whatever the outcome, both sides would feel better if the Supreme Court some day settled the question of whether a journalist can be forced to divulge his thoughts and opinions. "As long as the question is open," says Lando, "any time a reporter sits down to discuss something with his editor, he'll keep in the back...