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...Meet the Press set a standard for Sunday talk shows with politicians. He refused to court either the guest or the audience. The aim of such shows, after all, is to inform more than to entertain. In fair, informed and gentlemanly questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb, the audacity that is close to rudeness, favored by British interviewers who put their own country's political figures in the dock, Fallaci-style...
Douglas Brew and NeiJ MacNeil/ Washington
Reported by Laurence I. Barren and Neil MacNeil/ Washington...
...eclipsed, if that is possible, by the tension and thrill of the hostage release." Like a general fighting a war on two fronts, Ajemian had to move quickly to deploy correspondents where they were most needed. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett stayed with President-elect Reagan while Correspondent Neil MacNeil headed up a team assigned to cover the Inaugural speech and ceremony. When word came that the hostages were finally free, News Editor Dean Fischer coordinated long-standing plans to gather information on the hostages and their families. Reporter Susan Schindehette was with the family of former Hostage Gary...
Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/ Washington