Word: mudd
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Many TV journalists are concerned that their colleagues' fascination with new gadgets capable of zooming and spinning images around the screen results in eyecatching but less informative newscasts. Says NBC Chief Washington Correspondent Roger Mudd, 54: "It would be a step backward if we succumbed to what I regard as the dangerous trend around on network newscasts, if we allow the pyrotechnics of television news to become more important than the news itself...
Next month John Chancellor, 54, will switch to a commentator's role, and NBC will launch a new anchor team: Roger Mudd and former Today Host Tom Brokaw, 41, who are already being touted as "the anchor team of the '80s." Muses CBS Evening News Executive Producer Howard Stringer: "We may be in the lead right now, but we cannot afford to be complacent. With Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd starting soon, it certainly wouldn't take much to close the gap between our news programs." Only time and the Nielsens will tell. But some observers think...
Television journalists Frank Reynolds of ABC, Roger Mudd of NBC, Bruce Morton of CBS, and Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil-Lehrer Report, will probably attend. ABC news president Roone Arledge and former CBS news president William Leonard are also expected...
...September 23, 8:20 a.m.--Officials at the Medical School reported a double beam scale, engraved Med-School Trauma Unit, missing from the seely Mudd Building...
...with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against CBS's top-rated Dallas, later against The Incredible Hulk. Brinkley denied reports of contractual disputes with NBC News President William Small. More significant, perhaps, was the news that Today Host Tom Brokaw will anchor Nightly News with Roger Mudd starting next April. Said Brinkley last week: "I'm not happy to be leaving, but there's nothing at NBC that I really want...