Word: pierpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pierpoint of CBS stood up, and our eyes met for ever so tiny an instant. We knew but did not want to believe. "What was that?" he asked. Doug Kiker, now of NBC, then a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, was typing on his lap. He paused. Kennedy's limousine had turned the corner beneath a boxy, ugly building and sunk out of sight. The pigeons -- the famous pigeons of death -- were rising and swooping under the trees...
...Pierpoint stood still for a couple more seconds, Kiker pecked a time or two. Three seconds, four. Then reality rushed with terrifying clarity down that short street beneath the Texas School Book Depository. We were never the same, nor was the world...
...issue, however, may be shifting from sex to age. Says Reporter Zoe Levin, 36, of Kansas City's WDAF: "Today the emphasis on cosmetics applies to men as well.'' At the networks, some older male correspondents, including CBS Veterans George Herman, 63, and Robert Pierpoint, 58, have been pushed into secondary roles. When ABC and NBC realign their evening newscasts next month, the average age of the three lead network anchormen will be a relatively youthful 46. Says ABC News President Roone Arledge: "It is a fact of life-when your face is out there as your...
...Reagan team. In fact, he says he was told that an Administration official once warned ABC executives that the White House might revoke Donaldson's press pass. One reason Donaldson has since been able to achieve peace with the Administration, suggests former longtime CBS White House Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, is that the confrontational style, far from putting the President on the spot, "has played right into Reagan's hands. Donaldson and others intrude with a simple shot, and Reagan bounces it back with a shallow quip that plays beautifully onscreen. The exchange gives the appearance that...
...press makes and breaks reputations: that's well understood in show business by people who spend half their lives trying to get their name in the paper and the second half of their careers trying to keep it out. In television coverage of Washington, CBS Correspondent Robert Pierpoint discovered, the truism is "that most people are not worth interviewing if they are not known to the public, and that once known, they often don't want to be interviewed...