Word: summiteer
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...simple expedient of respecting their turfs and their opinions. Coming from the National Security Adviser's job, he has retained a major role in foreign policy. In the past month he has turned up all over the globe: chatting with top Soviet defense officials at the Moscow summit; visiting Tokyo, where he urged Japan to share more of the costs of maintaining U.S. bases; promising South Korean leaders last week to beef up U.S. forces to guard against any disruption of the Olympic Games...
...world's news last week taking place within taxi-hailing distance of Red Square? One might have thought so from the TV networks' saturation coverage of the Moscow summit. The main event, of course, was the face-to-face meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev. The most fascinating sideshow: Raisa and Nancy playing a catty game of one-upmanship. But there was more -- much more. Religion in the Soviet Union was suddenly a hot topic for TV reporters, as were Soviet rock music and the effect of glasnost on the Soviet press. There were tours of the Moscow...
With all three evening newscasts (and a good portion of the morning news shows as well) transplanted to Moscow for much of the week, summit news squeezed out all but the briefest wrap-up of other news. Monday night's CBS Evening News, incredibly, mentioned not a single non-summit-related story. It was, to be sure, a slow news week apart from superpower summitry. But the blanket coverage raised questions of TV overkill. With little substantive news expected from the summit, and the network news divisions already facing severe budget constraints, some wondered whether the extensive TV effort...
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...
...sure, TV's go-for-broke approach on such big stories has its rewards. With so much attention focused on the Soviet Union, viewers got many more background stories than would normally be allowed on the tightly formatted evening news. The importance of summit coverage, contends NBC News President Lawrence Grossman, is "not in terms of specific agreements. The major issue is trying to give people a sense of the landmark changes taking place inside the Soviet Union." With budgets growing tighter, however, the networks will have to take a harder look at whether such reporting extravaganzas are justified...