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...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...
...handicap in a visual medium-and by a canny sense of what the tube could do for him. He left nothing about his on-camera appearances to chance, including apparently spur-of-the-moment remarks. "We all give prior thought to our ad libs," says CBS News Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, "but Dan even writes down the colloquialisms in his ad libs. He thinks them through, and they give his stuff a quality." Indeed, Rather's Lone Star tropes have become something of a trademark. Interviewing G.O.P. Presidential Contender George Bush last month on 60 Minutes, Rather remarked...
Sophomore Libby Pierpoint, who teamed with senior Sally Roberts at second doubles, said the match was much closer than the final score indicated. "We came to this match psyched, especially since we lost (to Yale) 9-0 last year. The closer matches are indicative of our immense improvement over the past year...
...Powell would be the sole dispenser of information to journalists. Presiding over the single daily press briefing, Powell confined himself intentionally to what he called "rather innocent information" and even refused to acknowledge that negotiations were taking place; he would call them only "serious discussions." CBS's Robert Pierpoint apologized on the air: "We're doing our best with the material at hand, Walter, and maybe later the news will be better." NBC was reduced to opening one news broadcast with extensive closeup footage of a honey bee working over Camp David daisies...
...first post-trip briefing last week, on the SALT agreement, Nessen returned to the good graces of reporters. CBS'S Bob Pierpoint, a hard-nosed skeptic, said, "I thought it was the best briefing he has ever given. I think he's learned something"-summing up the feelings of many of the reporters present...