Word: newscaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City as "Hymietown" during his presidential bid in 1984, did not produce a commensurate jump in support among black voters. Brown's fuzzy plan for a 13% flat tax bothered almost everyone. A bad week got worse when unnamed former security guards claimed on an abc newscast that there had been rampant marijuana and cocaine use during parties at Brown's Los Angeles home while he was Governor. Brown himself was not accused of drug use, and he vehemently denies all charges...
...this dustup, journalists at first followed their gentler impulses. On the evening after the Star leaked its story via faxes to dozens of leading journalists, NBC was the only major network to carry an item on its newscast. At ABC, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings and executive producer Paul Friedman were more leery of the unbuttressed charges and reluctant to credit another news organization on a topic they too had been pursuing. Says Friedman: "We sat around joking that after all the symposia sponsored by prestigious academic institutions, we still have difficulty coping with what's right and what...
...just sucked up all the oxygen in the room." Co-anchor Cathy Burnham of the state's leading television outlet, WMUR, wryly acknowledged that fact last week as she introduced a story on Senator Bob Kerrey's health-care ideas. "And now," she said, minutes into the newscast's political coverage, "let's try to get to the issues...
Even before the war, ABC had the highest-rated evening newscast (World News Tonight), the only established late-night analysis program (Nightline) and the deepest bench of star correspondents. During the war, that army of talent simply outgunned its rivals. The network boasted the most coolly authoritative anchor (Peter Jennings), the sharpest interviewer (Ted Koppel) and the best military analysts (Tony Cordesman, General Bernard Trainor). For lucid wrap- ups of the day's events, ABC was the place to turn -- and judging from its wide lead in evening-news ratings during the most heavily watched weeks, the place most people...
Actually, ABC's World News Tonight was one of the first to experiment with magazine-style elements, in features like its "Person of the Week." Yet the newscast hews most closely to the fading verities of network news: it pays the most attention to international affairs, seems the least enamored of show-biz gimmicks and human-interest fluff, and has the anchorman who most approximates the Cronkite-Huntley model of Olympian detachment. While CBS's Rather and NBC's Tom Brokaw jetted to the gulf for the start of the ground war, Jennings remained at his anchor post...