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...demotion of Roger Mudd as anchorman on NBC News [Aug. 8] reinforces my opinion that David Brinkley, Chet Huntley, Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor and Edwin Newman would never be hired if they were starting out today. They are not pretty enough...
Among the TV news anchors at NBC, Roger Mudd was the most believable. His voice was pleasant and his enunciation perfect. Without Mudd, NBC will slip...
When Judy Woodruff became a TV news anchor in Atlanta in 1972, the station ordered her to cut her shoulder-length hair. Mary Alice Williams was urged in 1979 by NBC's New York station to change her eye color with tinted contact lenses. Dorothy Reed was forbidden in 1980 by ABC's San Francisco station to plait her hair in corn rows. The three women, and many of their counterparts, cheered last week when Christine Craft, 38, won a $500,000 damage verdict against the former owners of a Kansas City station, KMBC, that dropped...
...acute on women over 40. Says Anchor Wendy Tokuda, 33, of San Francisco's KPIX: "Male broadcast journalists grow more distinguished and credible, but the women just get older." There are notable survivors: Barbara Walters, 51, of ABC; Pauline Frederick, who retired in 1974 at age 65 from NBC; Reporter Taris Savell, 52, of Pensacola's WEAR; Commentator Dorothy Fuldheim of Cleveland's WEWS, who has signed another three-year contract at age 90. But as CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl, 41, contends, "It is generally uncharted waters whether women can age on camera...
...Says Reporter Zoe Levin, 36, of Kansas City's WDAF: "Today the emphasis on cosmetics applies to men as well.'' At the networks, some older male correspondents, including CBS Veterans George Herman, 63, and Robert Pierpoint, 58, have been pushed into secondary roles. When ABC and NBC realign their evening newscasts next month, the average age of the three lead network anchormen will be a relatively youthful 46. Says ABC News President Roone Arledge: "It is a fact of life-when your face is out there as your byline, cosmetic factors are involved." Arledge's attitude...