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Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
...Donaldson broached the scarlet letter issue on the August 18 broadcast of "This Week With David Brinkley," but he let Clinton get away with a dodge. "I won't answer any general 'have you ever' questions," Clinton said. He got away with the same answer with Bryant Gumbel on the "Today" show last week. In The New York Times, political reporter Robin Toner has glossed over the allegations as "a rumor campaign" in Arkansas...
During the debate on granting the President authority to use force against Iraq, Gerald B.H. Solomon, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, lambasted antiwar protesters. They are, Solomon intoned, "unshaven, shaggy-haired, drug-culture poor excuses for Americans." Then Solomon aimed his rhetorical blunderbuss at Bryant Gumbel, of NBC's Today show, who had expressed surprise at polls showing that most Americans felt the government was telling the press all they needed to know about the war. Quoth Solomon: "Evidently, ((Gumbel)) can't bear the idea of an American victory. He wants another American humiliation, another Vietnam...
There have been signs of trouble at Today since early 1989, when someone leaked a memo in which Gumbel attacked almost all his colleagues except Pauley. After that, it was hard to maintain the fiction that the Today crew was a happy family, and analysts began to note that while Today was first in the ratings, Good Morning America was stealing the young female audience most prized by advertisers. Pauley's awkwardly handled departure -- it looked to many as if she had been supplanted by the younger Norville -- turned a problem into a catastrophe...