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...candid and juicy. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather is portrayed as an erratic, insecure man, duplicitous in personal dealings. Favored correspondents reportedly are accorded a place on Rather's A list and get frequent exposure on the CBS Evening News. Those who cross him -- Morton Dean, Ed Rabel -- are forced into relative obscurity. But the chief Machiavelli in this troubled kingdom is Van Gordon Sauter, the raffishly flamboyant former president of CBS News, who is charged with virtually dismantling the great journalistic tradition fostered by Edward R. Murrow. Dallas was never so lively...
Stories purely about businesses, other than news items on layoffs or bankruptcies, are still infrequent. But one worthy exception was a series last week by CBS on "deindustrialization," or the disappearance of jobs in heavy manufacturing. Reporters Ed Rabel, Bernard Goldberg and Linda Douglass tellingly depicted the rise in productivity and entrepreneurial spirit among Third World competitors of Western manufacturers. The series disputed, moreover, the optimistic observation of a similar report by ABC's Richard Threlkeld a few weeks ago. Describing the retraining of jobless former auto workers in California, Threlkeld said: "These labor pains we are feeling...
Threlkeld, Rabel, Goldberg and Douglass, interestingly, are not regularly assigned to economics stories. But increasingly the networks are scheduling more coverage of commerce and finance than even the expanded specialty staffs can handle. Sums up NBC's Frank: "Economics is creeping into everything. All of our reporters need to acquire economic literacy...
...Salvador who proved to be a slick young Marxist recanting all he had been expected to say. Still, the difficulty the Administration has in making, or selling, its case was evidenced in an ambitious prime-time CBS News report on Central America. CBS sent Mike Wallace to Nicaragua, Ed Rabel to Guatemala, and Bill Moyers to El Salvador...
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