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...anchormen have come home. Star correspondents Arthur Kent and Bob McKeown are eagerly anticipating their next contract negotiations. Even for David Letterman, the end of the war brought a sense of relief. "Finally," he said, "we can go back to ignoring...
...gulf war has, moreover, reaffirmed the new competitive order in TV news. Though each of the broadcast networks had its scoops (CBS's McKeown's in Kuwait City), its stars (NBC's Pentagon whiz Fred Francis), its high points and its low moments during the war, ABC emerged as the clear and decisive overall winner. What was once a three-way race may be developing into a long- term mismatch...
Through it all, one fact was nearly obscured: the gulf war was covered exhaustively. Last week's fast-moving ground offensive left many pool reporters unhappy as renegades like CBS's Bob McKeown (the first American journalist to reach Kuwait City) beat them to the big story. But for the people back home, it mattered little. Pictures of liberated Kuwait, give or take a few hours, reached TV in abundance. The allied battle plan, after having been kept secret for weeks, was eventually laid out in lavish detail. The bulk of the story was told, or soon will...
...lesson gleaned from Vietnam is that the nation will not accept a bloody stalemate. If young lives are to be lost, Americans want at least that they not be wasted. "We're in this thing now -- we can't just walk away," says James McKeown, a commercial developer whose company headquarters in Woburn, Mass., is wrapped in a huge yellow bow three stories high and 22 ft. wide. The way the soldiers die could also have an impact. If thousands are slaughtered by poison gas, the rage for revenge could quickly drown the outcries for withdrawal...
...Some women staffers are especially outraged by Ellis' descriptions of atrocities against females. But no one wants to say so on the record. Here is a hot property that may be too hot to handle or, says a staffer who requests anonymity, "too hot to even talk about." John McKeown, publisher of the trade division, will not offer his personal opinion of the book, though he has strong feelings as a businessman: , "We plan to market it aggressively, with muscle and energy...