Word: sawyerism
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...rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
...there's more than mere show-biz flair here. Sawyer is a fully credentialed reporter who covered Three Mile Island and the Iran hostage crisis. Later she demonstrated smarts and interviewing skills as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. As a member of the formidable 60 Minutes team since 1984, she has traveled from the garbage mounds of Cairo to the heart of the AIDS plague in Uganda, profiled the likes of Corazon Aquino and James Michener, and given then candidate George Bush perhaps his toughest TV grilling on the Iran-contra scandal. If she never seemed an indispensable...
Have a conversation with Sawyer, and you cannot help coming away impressed. Intelligent, articulate, polished -- and a bit calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them...
...wonder that Sawyer, at 43, is the hottest newswoman in television? The sort of star news executives battle over, make promises to, open their wallets for? Last February, after more than ten years at CBS, she was hired away by ABC for a reported $1.6 million a year. The primary lure: the chance to join Sam Donaldson as co-anchor of Prime Time Live, the new weekly show that will debut this Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. In addition, ABC dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled...
...Walter Cronkite, and Huntley and Brinkley were certainly as popular as any of % the current luminaries. But salaries and network bidding wars entered a new phase in 1976, when Arledge lured Walters away from NBC for $1 million a year. The rise of superagents like Richard Leibner (who represents Sawyer, Rather, Shriver and Mike Wallace, among other network news stars) has brought about an escalation of salaries and an increase in the clout these personalities wield...