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When Anchorman Ted Koppel conceived the show, he did not intend it as a counterbalance to the visceral terrors of The Day After. The linkage was natural, however. Explains Koppel: "What The Day After makes no attempt to do is to show how a crisis evolves. One is left with the impression that everything happens very quickly-boom, boom, boom, there's the crisis and here come the missiles. There's no sense that leaders made any effort to resolve the crisis...
...Lawrence Live organization, says he is trying to link up his home town by television or telephone to Leningrad, so that Soviets and Americans can hash things out person to person. After the broadcast, ABC will put on a special 45-min. edition of Viewpoint, anchored by Ted Koppel. The show, intended as both a kind of emotional decompression chamber for viewers and a debating platform between friends and foes of the freeze, has an additional, and certainly not accidental, function. It gives The Day After the weight of a major news event...
...probing questions, they quickly advance arguments and perhaps unintentionally, often make some reporters appear nervous and uncertain. "I think it's healthy for reporters to get their feet in the fire." Hewitt says Nesson remembers that just moments before "Viewpoint'"s airtime, in "Nightline'"s usual timeslot, moderator Ted Koppel told the assembled reporters. "You're about to confront the snarling tiger...
...obvious choice. He was ABC'S anchor for three years, beginning in 1965, when he was only 27, and has been persuasive if cerebral as a London-based coanchor; since he shifted to Washington July 4 as a substitute for Reynolds, ABC ratings have rebounded. Ted Koppel is both happy and, in ABC'S view, all but indispensable at the late-hour interview show Nightline. White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson is combative and abrasive. The other anchor in the current format, Chicago-based Max Robinson, never caught on with ABC executives and has been told he will...
...most celebrated predecessors, NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw. Says Donaldson: "It takes a certain resiliency to persevere in covering the White House-or, a critic might say, a dullness of wit." He has tried out as anchor on ABC's Sunday-night newscast and on Nightline when Ted Koppel is away. But whatever else he may do in his career, he is unlikely to find a job that better suits his talents and temperament than jousting with Presidents. "I love this business," he says. "Every day it is victory or defeat, and you do not have to wait...