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...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...
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...
...Election Day Pauley had her first TV job: as a reporter at WISH-TV, the Indianapolis CBS affiliate. She specialized in farm stories, anchored a Saturday-night newscast, and found herself the butt of jokes by a local radio personality named David Letterman. After three years at the station, she caught the eye of executives at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, who were looking for someone to co-anchor the evening news. A few days after her audition, Pauley got a call from the station's news director, offering her the job and a salary more than triple what...
...year in Chicago was not easy. The critics were nasty (one said she had "the IQ of a cantaloupe") and fellow reporters skeptical. "I was all too fair game," she says. "I was the first woman to anchor an evening newscast, and I was practically a college coed." A former staff member at WMAQ remembers, "She didn't know the first thing about reporting. But her on- camera presence was incredible...