Word: walters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most glaring oddity in this drama is that Allen hand picked Walter, who boasted a strong sales background but no telecom experience. Yet he was attractive because he accepted Allen's demand to stay on until January 1998. "The best people are already running large companies and do not want to wait before taking over," says an executive familiar with the search...
Within weeks of arriving, Walter told the Wall Street Journal that he hadn't joined AT&T "to be No. 2." Blocked by Allen from importing his own deputies, Walter moved aggressively, relying on his salesman style to win new allies. His extensive meetings with AT&T employees and corporate clients buttressed morale, as did his promotion of several insiders. But along the way, Walter lost sight of the only constituency that mattered: Allen. Last April after Walter, not Allen, got the call from SBC's chairman proposing merger talks, Allen escalated his criticism, telling AT&T directors that Walter...
...reach out and tap someone. This time, the board will conduct its own search, and the new CEO will take over pronto. The top inside candidate is John Zeglis, AT&T's vice chairman. A swift choice would provide an ironic coda: by hastening Walter's departure, Allen will have hastened his own as well...
Reading the shopworn stereotypes and outlandish characterizations of central Nevada in Walter Kirn's piece "Conspiracy, U.S.A." made me suspect the authenticity of the reporting on the other places. Do brothels and junk stores offer an accurate window into Nevada's towns? Or perhaps you were just looking for something colorful from the Wild West. At best, the Nevada story was condescending. It is a good example of how presuppositions can control perceptions. ED IVERSON Fallon...
...same belief that led the producers of Dave to cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing...