Word: networking
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...illiterate--she has a bachelor's degree in history from North Texas State University. She's not a political novice--she's a Republican precinct committee member and has held county-wide office. And she doesn't spend much time watching television evangelists or Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network. But, come May and the less-than-crucial Oregon primary, mom will be casting her ballot for the television broadcaster from Virginia...
Bernie? Yes, Bernie, as in Bernard Shaw, the Cable News Network's principal Washington anchor and the newest member of TV news's most exclusive fraternity. Although hardly a new face (at 47, he has logged 24 years in the business, the past eight anchoring at CNN), Shaw has come to personify CNN's transformation from the "Chicken Noodle Network" to a respected competitor of ABC, CBS and NBC. That status seemed to become official last December, when Shaw joined the three network anchors for a nationally televised interview with President Reagan, from the Oval Office...
Indeed, at a network where round-the-clock anchor duties are shared by 21 journalists, Shaw's solemn delivery embodies CNN's no-frills style. "His philosophy is that the messenger shouldn't get in the way of the message," says V.R. (Bob) Furnad, the senior executive producer of CNN's campaign coverage. But Shaw is no shrinking violet. During the White House interview, he described the 1980 Reagan-Bush ticket as a "shotgun marriage" and asked whether that was why the President had not endorsed Bush's 1988 candidacy...
...eventually moving to Washington and television, joining CBS in 1971. Six years later, he jumped to ABC, where as Latin American correspondent he covered the Nicaraguan revolution and the mass suicide at Jonestown. In 1980, when CNN asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...
...million last year) through a minimal use of high-cost graphics and glitz, and by maintaining a notoriously low-paid nonunion staff. Shaw does not divulge his salary ("It's between me and the IRS"), but insists that it is not comparable to the millions paid to his network rivals. In any case, the exemplar of CNN spareness takes a dim view of such excess. Says he: "Beware of anchormen who ride in limousines...