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...years in a job that mostly requires him to set a scene briefly before switching to a correspondent-a snippety, jigsaw process he considers "challenging but not rewarding." He wants to be a commentator. Last summer, with the approach of Eric Sevareid's retirement, CBS News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant decided not to fill the 2½-minute...
...Terrorists: "Except in the most compelling circumstances, and then only with the approval of [Richard Salant] the president of CBS News ... there should be no live coverage of the terrorist/kidnaper since we may fall into the trap of providing an unedited platform...
...that he was only being "relieved of all reporting duties," and this coverup, as Schorr calls it, was insistently repeated by both sides. Later, with the help of his lawyer (Joe Califano, whose $150,000 legal fees-were paid by CBS), Schorr defended himself before the House Ethics Committee. Salant now proposed to take Schorr back; Schorr was tempted. But Lawyer Califano told him: "You're mad. There's nothing left to go back to. They just want to get rid of that awful February agreement and have you back until people forget you're a hero...
...changed. Rallying to Walters' defense, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn argued that Walters' coanchor, Harry Reasoner, should be the one given the boot: "He's insulting her on the air. He's being rude and sarcastic and putting her down." Richard Salant, president of CBS News, is also sympathetic. Says he: "She's taking an awful licking." Walters herself seems unruffled. "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," she maintains. "The only ones who don't seem to be concerned...
Even when they try, networks find it hard to alter their half-hour formula. This probably explains why Barbara Walters at ABC has justified neither the fears nor the hopes for her million-dollar presence. Remember the outburst from CBS News President Richard Salant when Walters was signed? "This isn't journalism-this is a minstrel show. Is Barbara a journalist, or is she Cher?" It is as interviewer and not as minstrel that ABC has tried to use her. The interview format, it turns out, does not particularly enhance a headline service. There sit Barbara and Harry Reasoner...