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...Vegas hotel lobby, or space-age backdrops of multiple TV screens-Cronkite knows the value, in maintaining listener loyalty, of what he calls the "old shoe" factor. It irritates him when young interviewers ask him how much of the broadcast he writes, as if this alone distinguishes a newsman from an announcer (his written contribution is "purely whimsical-from 0% to 50%," Cronkite says; Chancellor writes more of his). The choice and editing of stories matter more...
...testimony before the Senate committee. Says Korry: "Hersh was the first reporter to stick it to me hard." Admits Hersh: "I led the way in trashing him." When Korry protested to Hersh and other reporters that some witnesses had lied to the Senate committee about his role, only one newsman, Joe Trento of the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, investigated the case in detail. In 1976 Trento wrote that Korry had been victimized by other Government officials looking for a scapegoat, but the story was largely ignored by the Times and other major news organizations...
...previously spent a year in Rio de Janeiro, checked into the Sheraton six days before the slayings in the dining room. He left his room the next day, leaving behind his camera, tape recorder, typewriter, a Spanish dictionary and a well-worn handbook on South America. The tall, bearded newsman never returned to his room and has not been heard from...
...over Washington last week the foreign embassies were studying the election polls with the same intensity as Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne. Those faceless analysts in the lower reaches of diplomacy manned the phones looking for clues about the next U.S. President. One Communist newsman hurried to the office of an American counterpart and traded electoral theories on Reagan and Carter for an hour, left a little vodka in appreciation, then undoubtedly dashed back to his embassy to file a report behind the Iron Curtain...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...