Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, network executives claimed, the TV armada was comparatively lean this time. Each network sent between 80 and 100 people to Moscow -- "barely enough to do what we needed to do," asserted CBS News President Howard Stringer. Though the summit dominated regularly scheduled newscasts, none of the three networks aired a prime-time or late-night special on the subject. And except for CNN (which devoted about 50% of its schedule to the doings in Moscow), live coverage was relatively sparse. When Reagan appeared at Moscow State University on Tuesday for an extraordinary question-and-answer session, CNN carried...
...like the wooden shoes of the little Dutch girls echoing their clomps in the speed skaters' Oval. On Mount Allan, where Zurbriggen and Swiss Teammate Peter Muller drew most of the early glare, a softer scene involved the sport's former custodians, the Austrians. Leonhard Stock, 29, the fifth-stringer who replaced fabled Franz Klammer in 1980, then made it worse by winning the downhill gold, finished an unexpected fourth last week and was finally embraced. Two days later, when Zurbriggen found a gate between his skis in the combined downhill-slalom, it was an Austrian, Hubert Strolz, atop...
Buoyed by the midweek backlash in Rather's favor, CBS executives stood by their man. "There is no question that what Dan portrayed on the air was not the sort of gracious Southern gentleman that he is in person," said News President Howard Stringer. "What we got was a journalist in pursuit of a story." CBS Chairman Lawrence Tisch, who was traveling in the Far East on business when the episode occurred, was briefed on it by telephone and, according to Stringer, was "very supportive." CBS staffers, though shaken by the initial barrage of criticism, were also upbeat by week...
...postshow atmosphere at CBS was grim. Some 6,000 people called CBS's New York headquarters that evening, most crying foul. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS News, came somewhat belatedly to Rather's defense. "The public doesn't often see aggressive journalism on television," he explained. "This is not the time to be careful how we address the people who want to be President of the United States." Stringer says the episode reinforced the need for live television on the evening news. "If we want to sanitize the evening news all the time, where all the edge is taken...
...flexible enough to switch at the last minute from a scheduled show to one covering a major breaking story. With Rather as anchor and a full- time staff of 48 (no fooling), 48 Hours has already given the whole news staff an "adrenaline surge," says News President Howard Stringer...