Word: sevareid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emphasizing that America needs to protect its "precious shield" of freedom of the press, Eric Sevareid, consultant and Senior Broadcaster for CBS News, spoke before an audience of 200 last night at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics Forum...
...third annual Joe Alex Morris Jr. '49 lecture Sevareid criticized the Reagan administration's policy of threatening journalistic freedom noting Reagan's "reckless attitude toward the first amendment...
...John Chancellor, no longer at the anchorman's desk but sitting to one side, talks with pictures and maps, and seems happier as a commentator than as a news reader. Temperamentally, he has always been an explainer. These appearances are a long way from the days of Eric Sevareid, looking handsomely lugubrious and furrowed, as he made a few rueful but neutral remarks about events...
With Mudd in Washington and Brokaw in New York, Chancellor will occupy himself with special projects and add an Eric Sevareid-style commentary to the news several times a week beginning next April. NBC has also talked about extending the Nightly News to an hour, giving Brokaw the time and latitude to produce special reports in addition to his anchor duties. How much control Brokaw and Mudd will exert over editorial content, however, is still up in the air in NBC's front office. Brokaw is optimistic: "We're not there just to read the news...