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...gathering staff. This strength began with Edward R. Murrow (Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid remain from that era), continued with a middle generation of Roger Mudd and Dan Rather, and has now resulted in a set of people as good as Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Richard Threlkeld and Lesley Stahl. CBS constantly comes up with better film and clear, informed reporting. ABC has yet to make a commitment to a first-rate reporting staff; without that, Walters and Reasoner are not competitive enough...
...implying that CBS had pressured Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Dan Rather to go easy on Richard Nixon the night he announced his resignation from the presidency-a charge all three deny. Worse, for several hours last Feb. 11, Schorr let his bosses believe that Fellow Correspondent Lesley Stahl leaked the Pike report. Some of the people Schorr worked with in the CBS Washington bureau have never forgiven him. Said a correspondent: "It's one thing to deceive management. It's another thing to shit on your colleagues...
Except the nation never saw it. CBS's Lesley Stahl ran up, shouting "Mister, who are you?" and other network reporters witnessed Ellis' rage. But the TV cameras had already homed in on the anchor men for closing comments. Much of the week was like that. In spectacular contrast to last month's Democratic Convention, the early part of the Republican gathering was so laced with suspense, color, passion and occasional humor that the show seen on the tube was far hotter than a made-for-television movie...
...recruit: Ernie Leger, 46, an Albuquerque real estate salesman, gave up his job for four months to work as a full-time volunteer (15 hours a day). He worked telephone banks turning people out for ward conventions, the first step in the delegate selection process. Says state chairman Jack Stahl, who is staying neutral: "I see a clean sweep of all 21 delegates for Reagan...
...around the idea of hiring a woman anchor, but ABC, a perennial third in the battle for audiences, has long been the most serious about it. In 1974, ABC Evening News Executive Producer Av Westin began a quiet evaluation of a number of female candidates, among them Walters, 44; Stahl, 33; Brown, 35, now stationed in London, and Liz Trotta, 39, correspondent for New York's WNBC-TV. Then Westin resigned last fall in a row with News Chief Sheehan, and the search was suspended. But the network soon commissioned Frank Magid Associates to test viewer preferences; the firm...