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Partly as a result, a roster of contenders have deflected or flat-out declined overtures. According to present and former NBC top brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects...
...some high-powered names, NBC will doubtless find an experienced, plausible news president. Many of the same people who described the job as horrendous would be ready to take it. Some insiders predict that the eventual choice will indeed be one of those who has already turned it down: Russert of Meet the Press. Whoever it is may find there are days where he shares the judgment of Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum at Columbia University: "Taking that job would be like jumping onto a funeral pyre...
...demanded that reporters not ask him about his involvement in Iran- contra. Good Morning America agreed to ask only about crime, health care and taxes; Bush appeared three times last week. Meet the Press refused to agree to any limitations and has yet to land an interview. Says Tim Russert, moderator of Meet the Press: "We just can't let the President set the ground rules for an interview...
...some editors and press monitors criticized CNN for going public with unconfirmed information. "It's a fundamental of journalism: one-source stories are bad," says Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley. "Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization makes exceptions." Asserts CNN's Ed Turner: "We double-check sources when it is humanly possible. But you also have to believe in your own journalist on the scene...
...untested. He did, during his first month, deftly resolve a 53-hour cell-block takeover by inmates at Sing Sing. He was an early and important Mondale supporter, but he seems authentically reluctant to run, and has unequivocally promised to serve out his gubernatorial term. His chief aide, Tim Russert, does not dance around the issue coyly. "I know him very, very well," says Russert...