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Lately, though, the networks' morning-show managers have committed some major miscues. Last fall the Today show turned what should have been an orderly transfer of power -- from Jane Pauley to Deborah Norville -- into a public-relations Chernobyl. Norville, cast as the usurper of Pauley's job, took over in January with viewers already against her. And they don't seem to have changed their minds: after nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped...
...these skeptical times, polls may be the one remaining authority that the press customarily accepts without question. The subject may be the Panama invasion (the public supported it), the arrest of Mayor Marion Barry (Washingtonians thought he should resign), or Jane Pauley's treatment by NBC (PEOPLE readers who answered a call-in survey found it unfair), but editors rarely meet a poll they don't like. Polls have even been published reporting the number of California drivers with paraphernalia hanging from their rearview mirrors (8%), and Iowans with ornaments on their lawns...
...initiatives to the press on a daily, rather than a quintannual, basis. Eastern European nations are stumbling over each other to declare their independence--witness the recent resignation of the entire East German Politburo. At this torrid pace, the Communist Bloc will soon generate more headlines than the Jane Pauley-Today Show feud...
...Pauley's departure is the latest in a series of jolts to NBC's once happy morning family. The turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor...
...Trading Pauley for Norville, however, may be risky. Pauley, a 13-year veteran of the show, remains a widely recognized and popular news personality, as well as the best interviewer among the morning-show women. Norville, who joined the network as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise in 1987, has yet to prove herself with a national audience. Her chief success to date: as correspondent for Bad Girls, a prime-time special about troubled teens that drew sensational ratings in August. Her fast rise has reportedly miffed many colleagues at NBC News. Last week she found herself the target...