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Most of our knowledge about COINTELPRO comes from documents pried out of the FBI after successful lawsuits by NBC reporter Carl Stern and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the target of a major disruption campaign. These SWP documents, published as COINTELPRO are fairly narrowly confined to the FBI's campaign against the SWP, as might well be expected, but they seem to allow a reasonable general portrait of COINTELPRO to be reconstructed...
...Impresario Lou Walters, who made and lost several minor fortunes during Barbara's girlhood. After Fieldston School, Sarah Lawrence College and a twelve-month marriage to Businessman Bob Katz (annulled; a second marriage ended in divorce last March), she went to work at New York's local NBC TV affiliate, learned the trade, including film editing, and in a year rose to the rank of producer. She left the station, bounced around a number of writing and public relations jobs in and out of television and landed at the Today show as a writer in 1961. Always eager...
Walters has elevated the interview to a high art. "She has a relaxed, easy manner," reports NBC News Vice President Don Meaney, who used to be in charge of Today. "She doesn't grill her subjects, therefore she elicits more information and keeps the audience on her side." Adds Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who has been interviewed by her several times and is a personal friend: "She always asks the questions most Americans want to know, not just the questions on the minds of the professionals. And she doesn't allow you to get away with a flat...
...measure of prestige and cash into their sagging news operation. Among the three networks, ABC has long been known as the Triangle Shirtwaist factory-meaning sweatshop-of television journalism. ABC spends about $44 million a year on its evening news (v. about $47 million each for CBS and NBC). The network has fewer correspondents than its rivals and is thought to pay them less. In a poll of 78 television editors, critics and columnists on U.S. newspapers taken last fall by Variety, only 6% gave ABC high marks in news gathering (v. 72% for CBS and 22% for NBC...
...smoke from that acrid parting clears, ABC executives may ponder whether the diva of the dawn's early light is worth $1 million a year to them at night. Most industry analysts seem to think she is. For one thing, ABC executives hope that her departure from NBC'S Today show will deepen that program's recent ratings slide, to the pleasure and profit of ABC's competing Good Morning, America. NBC may well move fast to replace Walters. Some candidates: Candice Bergen, Betty Furness. Bess Myerson and Shana Alexander...