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...American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during the AFTRA strike...
...coverage on most stations proved as numbing as six hours of Gilllgan's Island reruns. The tot boards endlessly reeled off numbers that were rendered ciphers by the landslide. Reporters talked aimlessly with such pundits as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Late in the evening, even Eric Sevareid was at a loss for his specialty, the orotund, empty phrase. In desperation he began to pick the brain of Luigi Barzini, author of The Italians and a dilettantish follower of McGovern's campaign...
...Administration and inflating negative news, with blind skepticism toward presidential policies and governmental authority generally. Nixon is not the only victim, Keogh argues. The public is led to believe that there exist simple solutions to serious problems if only the President would listen to Tom Wicker and Eric Sevareid. Blacks are told that they have an enemy in the White House. Youngsters become accustomed to hearing that troublemakers are admirable. "If the U.S. declines," Keogh concludes apocalyptically, "history will not let American journalism escape its large share of the responsibility...
...waiting for Press Secretary Ziegler to bail them out once again with another vapid press release praising the Chinese hospitality the analogy of the week award was given to one clever reporter who thought that China was more intriguing than the moon. But every one agreed that Erik Sevareid topped it with his continuous mane mutterings that the Chinese educational system was calculated to destroy the minds of Chinese youth. (Sound familiar?) But the Nixons did try to show their appreciation Pat Nixon, dutifully fulfilled her material duties by falling in love with the children and the food "I love...
...offer some sharp, personal comments. After the trip to the army base Cronkite noted that the tanks being destroyed in a training exercise were American and that the division, the 196th, had killed many Americans in Korea. The thought gave him, he said, "a chill up the spine." Eric Sevareid, after touring Peking University, noted that the intellectual level was that of a U.S. junior college. "Today," he said, "China is counter-revolutionary as regards the human mind...