Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible stories: there may be a breakthrough in the Iranian stalemate, there is trouble in Turkey and Lebanon, and Richard Nixon is arriving in Manhattan. Most of the stories have already been scheduled or discussed, and the reading goes swiftly, with only an occasional comment from Senior Producer Richard Kaplan or from his boss, Executive Producer Jeff Gralnick, who is calling in from Washington today. "We want to get into Turkey and Beirut," says Gralnick, "and we want to do it soon." Kaplan replies: "We'll get on to it, Jeff." At 10:20 the meeting disbands...
...York, Kaplan and Senior Producer Walter Porges take seats around a horseshoe-shaped command post that they call the bridge. Phones are everywhere, and there are two TV screens connected to computers. Without even having to whirl to one side, they can find out the latest on stories or watch footage coming in from the "birds"-otherwise known as satellites. The atmosphere is decidely informal...
...taped reports come in, each correspondent's words are transcribed and sent to the bridge, where Kaplan and Porges look at them. If they feel something is missing or needs to be changed, they ask the correspondent to do the report over again. In today's lead story about the hostages, for instance, U.N. Correspondent Lou Cioffi has begun his report with an interview with Irish Statesman Sean McBride, who has been acting as a mediator. Kaplan thinks that McBride should go at the end of the piece, and the change is made...
...schedule. Because of commercials there are only 22 minutes for news in the half-hour broadcast, not a second more. If something runs long or short, the two domestic anchormen-Tom Jarriel in Chicago and Frank Reynolds in Washington-have been given compensating sentences they can drop or add. Kaplan gives them directions through their earphones...
...clock broadcast is like an out-of-town tryout, and changes are always made for the next show at 6:30. Tonight Kaplan does not like a head shot of John Connally. "He looks like hell," he says, and a young woman runs to find one that is more flattering. He is also unhappy with a Washington report by Tim O'Brien about an FBI crackdown on pornography. Says he: "O'Brien needs another eight seconds." As a result of the change, a bit about flooding in Los Angeles is discarded...