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Peter Jennings can't do it. Neither can Katie Couric. Tom Brokaw at least ! gives it a try. "Yes, I can program my VCR," he says, "but only for the 1956 version of What's My Line...
Everyone is learning the game quickly. The most significant question of the campaign thus far may have come from Katie Couric, the host for Perot's two- hour call-in session on Today in mid-June. After he gave a waffling answer to a question about Social Security benefits, Couric shrewdly tossed the ball back to the caller: "Roberta, are you satisfied with that answer?" She wasn't, and Perot had to try again. Now more grass-roots questioners are probing with follow-ups, insisting on "specifics." At a time when TV journalism has come to the people, the people...
...DOORBELL RINGS, AND ONE BY one, an all-star guest list of TV celebrities troop into the house: Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Faith Daniels, Mary Alice Williams. The scene plays like one of those old I Love Lucy episodes, with the Ricardos in Hollywood. (Look -- it's William Holden! And Harpo Marx!) Actually, it is the most star-studded baby shower in TV history. All these real-life TV newswomen have come to pay tribute to their most famous fictional colleague: Murphy Brown...
That was quite a feat for TV's newest overachiever, who rose through the Today-show ranks in a scant three years. "He is creative, has wonderful news judgment and wants to win," says NBC News president Michael Gartner. "And he happens to be 26." Couric also dismisses any notion that Zucker's youth poses a problem. "He's very intelligent, and he has a real respect for history -- even if he wasn't around when it was made...
...over largely because of Couric. Formerly the show's national correspondent, she filled in as co-anchor when Norville went on maternity leave in February 1991 and was given the job permanently a month later. Couric's unaffected, girl-next-door likability has helped calm down TV's most volatile family circle. Zucker takes care to parcel out praise evenly, defending the often abrasive Gumbel. "Bryant is very opinionated," he says. "That's his greatest strength, and it hurts him too. But you'd be hard- pressed to find a better interviewer on TV." Still, he admits, "Katie has reinvigorated...