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After watching the TV coverage of the Republican Convention, I think the G.O.P. should demand equal time with that given to Cronkite, Chancellor, Rather, Utley, Brinkley, Walters, Brokaw, et al. I'm surprised we were permitted to hear all of Reagan's acceptance speech...
...flag-red folding chairs and chat, sleep, or read The Times. But the network crews, self-contained TV stations complete with backpack transmitters, constantly criss-cross the floor in search of some small scandal. When one stops, the others gather. Like blood beginning to clot, the aisle where Garrick Utley halts suddenly attracts Lesly Stahl, Sam Donaldson, and their assorted assistants. Tuesday afternoon, while most of the delegates stared unseeingly at the podium or talked with someone in an adjacent delegation, Sander Vanocur decided that the Massachusetts delegation needed visiting. Pretty soon, the Bay State section was full of more...
DIED. Freda Utley, 79, acerbic, English-born author (Odyssey of a Liberal, Last Chance in China), and journalist; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A member of the British Communist Party, she moved to the Soviet Union in 1930 but grew disillusioned with Stalin's regime when her Soviet husband was exiled to Siberia, where he died in a concentration camp. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, became a foreign correspondent for the Reader's Digest, and during the McCarthy hearings of 1950 testified about Communist influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Far East...
...long last NBC has ended its great host hunt to replace the late Frank McGee on Today (TIME, July 15). After Front Runners Tom Brokaw and Garrick Utley had made it clear that they would not be caught feeding dog food to a dalmatian before breakfast, the network found a more easygoing newsman...
...Both Utley and Brokaw say they enjoyed doing the show, liked the challenge of the spontaneous format. Both also stick at reading commercials. "I question," says Utley, "whether a reporter does not lose his journalistic virginity, by doing commercials. And can you recover that virginity later?" Brokaw does not question. "I find doing commercials repulsive," he states. "If that is a job requirement, it would not be negotiable with...