Word: kiker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tendency has been to put them in high-visibility positions for which they're not prepared." TV newswomen do tend to be younger and less experienced than their male colleagues. For that reason and because they are "the first wave," they are highly competitive. As NBC Correspondent Douglas Kiker puts it, "When you want somebody to go out in a blizzard on a Sunday night to do a 30-second spot, they say, 'Send me in, coach.' They're coming from behind and they know...
...Douglas Kiker fought his way to Betty Ford in a dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...
Despite an avowed preference for a younger man ("We have an interest in perking up identification with a younger audience," says Executive Producer Stuart Schulberg), four of the eight are over 40. The list: Los Angeles Reporter Jess Marlow, 44; Washington Correspondent Douglas Kiker, 44; Today's Washington editor Bill Monroe, 53; and that perennial Today substitute and network newsman, Edwin Newman, 55; London Correspondent Garrick Utley, 34; New York Anchor Man Jim Hartz, 34; Tomorrow Host Tom Snyder, 38; and White House Correspondent Tom Brokaw...
...course, there is always the gaggle of network newsmen--Daniel Schorr, Sam Donaldson, Douglas Kiker, Mike Wallace, etc. Daniel Schorr has the best view in the whole room--on a television monitor placed in front of him on the press table...
...course, was nowhere near broke. Ten days latter, it sent correspondent Douglas Kiker to the reservation, probably in anticipation of a possible bust. But no bust materialized, and Kiker delivered a report on "NBC Nightly News" that emphasized that Wounded Knee had indeed become somewhat boring...