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...presidential press'conference, but each network wants to display its White House correspondent posing a question-and avoid showing questioners from the other networks. Roone Arledge, president of ABC News, is amused when the competition feels obliged to show the President answering ABC'S Sam Donaldson, and does so with "sound bites" of incomplete sentences, so that the viewer doesn't hear Ronald Reagan familiarly addressing "Sam." Donaldson knows how to ask the burr-edged question that can't be ignored...
...Donaldson is also to be seen, well prepared, on This Week with David Brinkley, where he and George F. Will work over Prime Ministers, Congressmen and Cabinet members. This is no good-guy, bad-guy team. Will throws out questions from deep rightfield. Donaldson simply goes straight for the jugular. The effect can be unfair, informative and intimidating. The exchange must be fast. Any guest who wants time to reflect risks not being asked back. If he filibusters, he will be interrupted (it takes equal brass, as with Senator Edward Kennedy, to insist, "Excuse me, if I can finish...
...Tree, Donaldson...
Directed by Roger Donaldson...
Screenplay by Roger Donaldson, Peter Hansard and Bruno Lawrence...