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...Clinton's, clinches a disturbing trend. It demonstrates the complete erosion of the barrier between entertainment and politics. Dole has no ongoing campaign to blame; on the eve of a potentially bruising political fight he resorted not to the newspapers, nor even to Nightline, but to Ted Koppel's fluffy ratings competitor...
Entertainment programs, as the name implies, try to entertain without necessarily challenging. For a politician, the Tonight Show offers the prospect of a free ride: face exposure, name recognition, and no tough questions. It is relatively obvious that faced with the choice between getting thrashed by Ted Koppel or "hosted" by Jay Leno, a politician will choose the latter option. It is certainly a proposition that the producers of such light entertainment understand. They bear part of the responsibility for the political complacency that characterizes the age of infotainment, providing a deleterious short cut for lazy leaders...
...flat-out declined overtures. According to present and former NBC top brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects were still being approached late last week...
...Donald Browne. But few fully meet the criteria privately articulated by NBC's corporate president Robert Wright: experience in news, experience in television and, most important, "high profile." Says one broadcast news veteran whom Wright has consulted: "He has been telling everyone that he'd like most to get Koppel or Moyers. He likes the idea of instant credibility...
...ever accused Cabot as being overly boisterous, but it's not like Harvard is a bastion of partying," Koppel says. "At Harvard, everything is skewed toward the lame end and Cabot is right in there...