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...took the oath of office last week, another, less heralded transition was quietly taking place in news bureaus throughout the capital. ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, who became the embodiment of the White House press corps during the Reagan era, stepped aside after twelve years on the beat to co-anchor a new ABC prime-time news hour due later this year. The Washington Post's Lou Cannon, who started covering Reagan in his early days in California, began a leave of absence to write a book about the Reagan presidency...
...case of the Big Story Syndrome. When the networks scramble to outdo one another, they seem to lose a measure of perspective. The CBS Evening News, in particular, turned into an odd cross between PM Magazine and The McLaughlin Group, with Rather strolling around Red Square with his temporary co-anchor, Charles Kuralt, and sitting down each evening to gab with three correspondents about the day's events. Adding to the prepackaged, magazine- show look: Rather, unlike Brokaw and Jennings, taped his segments several hours in advance, so he could be seen in the bright sunshine rather than...
...Evening News away from bland Washington stories and toward an emphasis on heart-tugging TV "moments"; who ruthlessly divided the CBS News staff into "yesterday" people (those identified with the Murrow-Cronkite era) and "today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear that he wasn't there to validate the glories of CBS News past. He was there to vanquish the past, to repudiate an approach to television that was seen as hidebound and irrelevant...
...perennially low-rated but soon-to-be-overhauled Morning News. Now word was out: she was on the verge of signing with ABC, reportedly at a hefty salary hike, to be co-host on Our World, a new documentary program that will go up against NBC's top-rated Cosby Show on Thursday evenings; "T.G.I.F." will probably air on Good Morning America, and she may also co-anchor a late-night show. Plenty to talk about, it seemed, but a right-of-refusal clause in her old NBC contract allowed the network to match any new offer. So Ellerbee...
Based in NBC's Rockefeller Center studio in New York, Malin and co-anchor Don Criqui will provide pre-game and half-time analysis of the action in Mexico City's Azteca Stadium...