Word: newsbreaks
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...told him of my difficulties. "I don't know where to go," I said. "Everyone you trip over is a reporter from the Sequoia Newsbreak...
...Giles. By following up a tip from an associate of Edmund Muskie who was privy to the Maine Senator's pre-convention discussions with Carter, Giles made a shrewd guess and beat the rest of the press by a full day on the convention's one big newsbreak. IT'S OFFICIAL: MONDALE/CAR-TER! crowed the front-page headline. Explained Giles, 12, a reporter for Children's Express, the fledgling preteen monthly that published a special convention issue last week: "My main advantage is that adults don't think children listen or understand...
...funny thing happened on the way to the debut. Patty Hearst surfaced. "This is the kind of newsbreak we want on the show," crowed a staffer, but ABC failed to hustle her parents on camera. Instead, Arledge had to make do with Howard being joshed, on tape, by Senators Edward Kennedy and Lowell Weicker. Monday-morning quarterbacks will have their greatest field day with Howard's uncharacteristic tension. "Our show will have a different feel with Howard," Arledge had boasted. But alas, even Cosell's talent for sardonic invective was dulled. Obviously reading from cue cards, he made...
...measured voice in all this noise is that of Charles Osgood, whose five-minute-and-50-second Newsbreak programs have an audience of 2,253,000 each morning on the CBS radio network. While his colleagues concentrate on assembling verbal front pages, Osgood searches out items that newspapers are likely to bury. He interviews the teenage girl who got the idea of sending spiders into space via Skylab. He tells of the confession of a cat burglar in Miami who is only seven years...
Composed in the hectic minutes preceding a Newsbreak broadcast, Osgood's verse veers erratically between Ogden Nash and Edgar Guest ("Nothing could be finer/ Than a crisis that is minor/ In the morning" reads one typical effort). "If you're writing a four-minute poem," Osgood explains, "and you have about a half-hour in which to do it, you accept whatever the muse lays...