Word: sauter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...round-the-clock Cable News Network and especially his most recent effort, CNN2, the headline-news service, which has been sold not only to cable systems but also to dozens of the networks' own affiliate stations. Most network executives publicly downplay creeping "Turneritis." CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter discreetly calls CNN "one of a number of factors in our thinking," but NBC's Frank confesses: "It was all Turner. That...
...News President Van Gordon Sauter believes that the apparent disparity in treatment between print and TV is deliberate. Says he: "There have been some compelling word pieces about the devastation in Beirut, but the Israelis know that words, however eloquent, lack the emo tional impact of pictures of people grabbing at stones and clearing rubble to find a human leg." Another explanation: most print reporters in Beirut can file directly to their newspapers in the U.S., over standard international telex lines, without going through Israeli authorities...
...Israel would probably have suffered less criticism if it had simply refused to open its transmission facilities from the start. (Indeed, last week Israel realized it had stumbled into a no-win situation and withdrew its transmission services for all foreign bureaus in Beirut.) Sums up CBS's Sauter: "We are subject to far more serious censorship in many places around the world, but it is often subtle and hard to demonstrate. The Israelis are direct. When we have to submit to the process that Israel imposes, we owe it to our viewers to say so on air, even...
...themselves on being able to show events as they are happening anywhere on the globe, found themselves picturing Margaret Thatcher walking in and out of No. 10 Downing Street-again and again-though some good still shots eventually began to surface. Says CBS Evening News Executive Producer Van Gordon Sauter: "Viewers have become accustomed to not just instant but instantaneous coverage. And they, like our TV news people, are frustrated because it's just not available." Occasionally the British shipboard correspondents were heard on TV describing some action like the bombing of the Port Stanley airfield, but the only...
...heated 45-minute briefing the following day. "To lay all of the problems that have been with this country for a long time on Ronald Reagan's doorstep, we think, is not fair," he added. Gergen sent two sharp missives to CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter requesting, "out of fairness," that the Administration be given a half-hour of prime time to respond. Replied Sauter: "In light of the extensive coverage which CBS has and will continue to provide to Administration viewpoints, we do not believe that a special rebuttal broadcast to this documentary is called...