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...Evening News. Those who cross him -- Morton Dean, Ed Rabel -- are forced into relative obscurity. But the chief Machiavelli in this troubled kingdom is Van Gordon Sauter, the raffishly flamboyant former president of CBS News, who is charged with virtually dismantling the great journalistic tradition fostered by Edward R. Murrow. Dallas was never so lively...
...news chief before being forced out of the company in 1986. It was | Sauter, Boyer writes, who coaxed the Evening News away from bland Washington stories and toward an emphasis on heart-tugging TV "moments"; who ruthlessly divided the CBS News staff into "yesterday" people (those identified with the Murrow-Cronkite era) and "today" people (the younger, TV-fluent crowd); who pushed for hiring Phyllis George as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. "Sauter was in charge," writes Boyer, "and it was clear that he wasn't there to validate the glories of CBS News past. He was there...
...addition to his post as Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy, Kalb heads the K-School's fledgling Shorenstein-Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy. It was through the center that he launched "Candidates '88," featuring 12 of the 13 presidential hopefuls for rounds of serious questioning...
...towards soapbox sermonizing, Kalb's tendency is not to press harder, or put a candidate on the spot. This is largely due to the way he views his role as interviewer. The K-School professor is perhaps one of the last journalists to follow the example of Edward R. Murrow himself, emphasizing straightforward questioning while avoiding less friendly, if sometimes more effective, tactics...
...Chicago house painter and a domestic, Shaw was drawn to TV journalism as a child. Edward R. Murrow was an early hero, and he recalls wangling his way into both the 1952 and 1956 Democratic Party conventions: "When I looked up at the anchor booths, I knew I was looking at the altar." While serving in the Marines, the aspiring journalist met Walter Cronkite, who, he recalls, advised him "to read anything I could get my hands on." He started out in Chicago radio, eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped...