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...that the magazine programs are the glamorous place to be." Notes NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: "It's getting harder and harder to find people coming into the business who want to cover daily news. They all want to be magazine reporters." Indeed they do: Brokaw himself will be a co-anchor (with Katie Couric) of NBC's new show...
...closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor...
Nearly all the co-anchor schemes since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship...
Nothing quite so juicy was happening on L.A. Law; the show has just got so darn good that New York City's WNBC-TV felt compelled to do a story. "If you watched NBC's L.A. Law tonight, it wasn't your imagination," gushed co-anchor Sue Simmons. "The show's writers, stars and especially its fans agree that the old L.A. Law magic is back...
...Dateline co-anchor Jane Pauley, who shared the awkward duty of apologizing on air, told the staff in a pep talk the next day that she took "perverse pride" in the readiness to admit failings. But most journalists and, for that matter, most news consumers seemed to agree with former NBC News president Reuven Frank, who said, "This is the worst black eye NBC News has suffered in my experience, which goes back...