Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, the President made every effort to be fair to the well-behaved horde, calling on reporters from small newspapers, such as the Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times, as well as major news organizations (NBC and CBS each got in two questions). "I know I've been staying down front here too much," he said at one point, referring to the heavyweight correspondents nearest him. "I've got to prove I can look at the back rows." Accustomed to more combative Chief Executives, the hard-boiled Washington reporters seemed disarmed by Reagan's cheery sincerity and grandfatherly style...
Some reporters missed the excitement of the old mike-to-mike combat with Richard Nixon, or the crisp pace of Jimmy Carter's minilectures. But most agreed with NBC Correspondent Roger Mudd, who expressed relief that reporters would no longer spring "from the half crouch exploding into a full gainer with shout" to get the President's attention. At week's end Brady announced two other changes: Reagan will hold occasional informal sessions with journalists beginning this week, and, as an experiment, questioners at his next formal press conference will be chosen by lottery...
...attitude is: what any might do, the others had better do. Since in a free press any number can demand credentials, around 1,000 reporters and cameramen, mostly American, jostled for position at Wiesbaden. In a speech not long ago, Reuven Frank, ex-president of NBC News, asked...
...members of the committee, chaired by James C. Thomson, Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, are: Nathan Glazer professor of Education and Sociology: David Kraslow, publisher of the Miami News and a 1962 Nieman fellow: Patricia Nelson Limerick, assistant professor of History: Frieda W. Morris, midwest bureau chief of NBC News; Garry Orren '68, a polling expert and associate professor of Public Policy: George Wilson, publisher of the Concord Monitor and William Woestendiek, executive editor of the Arizona Daily Star...
...hostages were airborne and the new President had been sworn in, live satellite hookups swiveled from Washington to Algiers to West Germany to the home towns of dozens of hostages. When the hostages deplaned in Algiers, each network had an ex-hostage on hand in the studios. At NBC, seeing the hostages safe in Algiers, former Captive Lloyd Rollins began to speak of Iranian mistreatment of the Americans. One shocking revelation: some had been forced to play Russian roulette. At CBS, as former Hostage Richard Queen quietly named each returning American descending the airplane ramp, Dan Rather's voice...