Word: gralnick
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...Kennedy Space Center. But interviews with grieving relatives were refreshingly absent. Though NASA had immediately sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule is not to badger the bereaved...
...made. It was also where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage. Such journalistic triumphs are no longer possible now that conventions have become bland commercial pageants designed to market a candidate known in advance. Jeff Gralnick, in charge of ABC's operation, calls conventions "dinosaurs...
...British newsmen with their country's fleet, neither reporters nor photographers have been able to get near the fighting, and the only real news has been from conflicting government statements issued in London and Buenos Aires. "We're covering this war with excruciating difficulty," admits Jeff Gralnick, executive producer of ABC's World News Tonight. "It's the first major story in a decade in which the press has not had immediate contact. You hear about the fighting...
...gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest video electronics. With Anchor Peter Jennings reporting in by satellite every night from somewhere overseas, explains World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick, "the viewer thinks there is more reporting in depth...
...three networks scrambled to report the story, caution was the byword. No one wanted to repeat the gross reporting errors that were made the day President Reagan was attacked, most egregiously the reports that Press Secretary James Brady had died. Says ABC World News Tonight Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick: "All of us learned a lesson with James Brady." The networks also had the problem of reporting live on a story that was unfolding in Rome while most of their foreign crews were concentrated in Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Early medical bulletins on the Pontiff swung wildly between Vatican...