Word: sevareid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heat was thick outside Atlanta's Omni Coliseum, but the nostalgia inside was even thicker. John F. Kennedy Jr. stirred memories of Camelot as he introduced Uncle Ted on Tuesday night. Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, those old TV warriors, were back in the CBS anchor booth. And network reporters, heads cocked into their earphones, mikes at the ready, were trolling the floor for stories as if it all still meant something...
...Evening News were happy to have more time for news items. To Moyers, this is a mistake. Instead of one more snippet of news, he believes, the public wants some attempts to explain and clarify events. That was the tradition at CBS, exemplified in the old days by Eric Sevareid, who with handsome furrowed face gravely discoursed on matters grave. Sevareid gave Moyers two pieces of advice: "Appear regularly, and choose your own subjects." Regularity, Moyers agrees, is necessary to establish an acceptable batting average and to accustom people to your approach: "I'm not ideological. I change my mind...
...President "has a wide streak of the authoritarian instinct," Sevareid continued, citing the proposal of lie detector tests and censorship agreements for federal employees...
...Sevareid also emphasized a need for journalism to resist censorship. The purpose of the press is to "find truth as best we can and transmit it with all the skill and courage we can summon," he said...
...Morris Lecturer, Sevareid will also host a discussion session this morning with Kennedy School students and will meet in the afternoon with members of The Crimson, The Independent and WHRB...