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...Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written on a cocktail napkin; the booker (Sanaa Lathan), who reports that the Pontiff is unavailable but she has on hold the guy who shot him. There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism as he is. And there's Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), McKenzie's personal assistant, so toadying that she wears a lint brush around her neck...
...dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine. I own no white warm-up outfits, cozy or otherwise...
...addition to WHRB on-air personalities, many former Harvard athletes have moved from the playing field to the broadcast booth over the years. John Dockery '66, a Crimson football player who went on to a professional career with the New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers, is now a nationally known broadcaster. In addition, James Brown '73 is studio co-host of the nationally televised FOX football pre-game show...
Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation and on-air commentator for the MSNBC network, criticized the media for putting profit-making before accurate and unbiased news coverage at a brown-bag lunch yesterday at the John F. Kennedy School's Taubman Center...
Gumbel does not believe in pursuing guests hotly either. He refers, with a touch of disdain, to the moment in 1995 when journalists were competing for an on-air interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. "Diane, Oprah, Barbara, Stone all struggled for that interview," Gumbel notes. "When one of them lands it, to what extent has his or her capacity to possibly engender the person's anger been compromised? By agreeing to be on, that person has in a sense granted the reporter a favor." He continues, "Will I make a phone call [to help secure a guest...