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Geraldo Rivera thinks big. "I went into news knowing I wanted to be more than a local newsman standing in front of a burning building talking about the number of firemen being treated for smoke inhalation," he says. Thirty-year-old Rivera has now been in the news business exactly three years and eight months as a reporter for New York City's WABC Eyewitness News. During that time, the former Brooklyn street-gang leader, merchant seaman, dry-goods salesman and poverty lawyer has won five Emmys, 74 other awards, and a $100,000-a-year salary...
...When a newsman asked Ziegler if Nixon's resort to violence in Cambodia might have had something to do with the students' anger, Ziegler took offense. "The president made clear in his speech Thursday that the objective of the action along the Cambodia--South Vietnamese border is to bring a peaceful conclusion to the conflict," he explained...
...eleven children, Troy, 40 (whose real first name is Forrest), grew up in the poor, populist-leaning "Little Dixie" section of southeastern Oklahoma. He dropped out of college to become a newsman. After 17 years of experience, including two stints as the Tulsa Tribune's Washington bureau chief, Troy quit in 1970 and bought the Observer from a priest, who had earlier taken it over from its founder, the Oklahoma City Roman Catholic diocese. Troy readily paid the asking price of $1 for the money-losing enterprise...
...trick for Traxler to drape Nixon round the neck of his opponent, James M. Sparling, a former newsman and an aide for 13 years to Congressman Harvey. Last summer Sparling worked for the White House as a legislative aide and had been quoted as saying that he was "fully, totally, 100% committed to the President...
More broadly, Griffith says that the function of the newsman should not be to purvey final answers and finished philosophy: "He is neither defender of any faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...