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...newsmen and their producers seemed themselves too numbed to grasp full command of the story until several hours after the shooting. Huntley and Brinkley seemed uncommonly beside the point; the early reporting hours demanded more footwork and fast talk-and less punditry. NBC anchorman Frank McGee shared with Sander Vanocur the credit for the coolest and ablest reporting on any channel...
Died. William R. McAndrew, 53, director of NBC News since 1951, who devised the hugely successful concept of team news coverage (Huntley-Brinkley) and organized a 1,000-man army of network newsmen; of injuries received in a fall; in Bronxville...
Fuzzy picture of Chet Huntley in Paris. "This is Chet Huntley in Paris," says the picture, relayed to New York via communications satellite at a cost of $122.50 per minute. Switch channels. Fuzzy picture of Walter Cronkite, also in Paris, also costing $122.50 per minute. Neither had anything of substance to report about the Viet Nam peace talks that had brought them to Paris. Television never looks so hollow as when it focuses on an event that takes place behind closed doors or in men's minds. But there they were, along with more than 1,300 accredited newsmen...
...Chinese. Obviously, unless the news picks up, most of the visitors will soon depart-as have Huntley and Cronkite-to return when and if developments warrant. But already the Paris talks have broken all records for press coverage of peace negotiations. Fewer than 100 correspondents, for example, were in Reims to witness the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II, and only 120 went to Kaesong for the opening of the Korean truce negotiations in 1951. The only major news organization not represented at the Paris talks, in fact, was Peking's New China
...networks ran films showing the passionate rhetoric of King during the Washington march and at Mem his just a day before the killing. The most stirring commentary to follow those pictures ame from NBC's Chet Huntley, who tilted his head away from the camera, battled back tears and said: "Again we are made to look like a nation of killers. Restraint, gentleness and chanty, virtues we so desperately need, have had a dark...