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...WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of rape has just begun to testify, and producer Bob Furnad is having a Maalox moment. After two days of mostly pallid testimony by other witnesses, prosecutor Moira Lasch has suddenly called the accuser to the stand. But Furnad, who is running the control room, has just learned that Terry Anderson, the last American hostage to be released, is scheduled to make his first appearance in Damascus at 3:30 p.m. -- smack in the middle of CNN's trial coverage. What should Furnad do: continue to cover the long-awaited...
...crunch hour approaches, the atmosphere in the control room becomes subtly charged. Furnad, legs jiggling nervously, lunges toward the monitors, computer screens and phone buttons arrayed before him, yelling orders. CNN president Tom Johnson shows up, hovering in the background. Ed Turner, another top CNN executive, appears, looking worried. "Of all the convergence of events," he says. "Six years they hold...
...half-hour break arrives on schedule, but Anderson does not. "Come on," mutters Furnad, "it's gotta happen before 4 o'clock." On the air, reporter Charles Jaco is killing time by talking to a legal expert. Finally Anderson / appears. Furnad shifts into overdrive: a switch back to Atlanta anchor Lou Waters; a shot of Anderson arriving; a split screen showing Anderson's Associated Press colleagues in New York City; a phone interview with John Anderson, Terry's brother...
Indeed, at a network where round-the-clock anchor duties are shared by 21 journalists, Shaw's solemn delivery embodies CNN's no-frills style. "His philosophy is that the messenger shouldn't get in the way of the message," says V.R. (Bob) Furnad, the senior executive producer of CNN's campaign coverage. But Shaw is no shrinking violet. During the White House interview, he described the 1980 Reagan-Bush ticket as a "shotgun marriage" and asked whether that was why the President had not endorsed Bush's 1988 candidacy...