Word: pauley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST RESPECTS, DATELINE NBC, THE network's new prime-time magazine show, is typical of the booming genre. Two well-manicured hosts (Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips) introduce three stories a week, from investigative pieces to heart- tugging features. For shameless emotional manipulation, however, the show may set new standards. A report last week on a Pennsylvania company accused of selling machine tools to Iraq was loaded, irrelevantly, with grieving parents of dead U.S. soldiers. A story on forecasting failures at the National Weather Service tried to clinch its case by coaxing tears from a woman whose husband had been...
...Today. His arrival coincided almost precisely with the start of the morning show's much publicized problems. First was the infamous Gumbel memo, in which the anchor made disparaging remarks about some of his colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Then came the departure of longtime co-anchor Jane Pauley and her replacement by Norville, the brittle blond who alienated both viewers and staff members. Today slipped from No. 1 to second in the ratings; morale sank just as fast. "This place went through hell," says Zucker. "We can acknowledge it now because it's over...
...boom shows no signs of slackening. NBC, the one network conspicuously left off the prime-time news bandwagon, will try again in late March with a new show, Dateline NBC, co-anchored by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips. And ABC is currently assembling the staff for yet another news hour, which will compete head-to-head with 60 Minutes on Sunday nights, perhaps as early as this summer...
...master of both political infighting and self-promotion. He made many friends in Congress, partly because he never turned down requests to testify. When Seidman came under White House fire for excessive independence last spring, one appreciative Republican Congressman, Jim Leach of Iowa, said, "Bill Seidman is the Jane Pauley of American government." Like Pauley, Seidman has been very visible on TV lately, which he calls "getting your case before the public." Is there perhaps also a bit of the ham in him? Maybe not, but how many other short, bald, aged accountants have appeared in a Robert Redford movie...
...some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late January), and ABC has talked about doing all-night news...