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Partly as a result, a roster of contenders have deflected or flat-out declined overtures. According to present and former NBC top brass, they include: the network's own anchor Tom Brokaw, and its Washington bureau chief and Meet the Press host Tim Russert; ABC News president Roone Arledge, his executive vice president Paul Friedman and Nightline anchor Ted Koppel; CNN president Tom Johnson and executive vice president Ed Turner; and PBS documentarian Bill Moyers. There may be others. Although the search has been under way for at least a month -- since before Michael Gartner resigned -- somewhat less glittery prospects...
...Lelia Bundles '74, an ABC News producer in Washington, said her expository writing teacher-"who was limited"-accused her of plagiarism after she wrote an exceptional paper...
...Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure, in which kids are given a chance to live out fantasies. The Children's Television Workshop, which gave birth to Big Bird for PBS, is developing an animated show for ABC next fall based on David Macaulay's book The Way Things Work...
...JEFF GREENFIELD POINTED OUT IN AN amusing piece on Sunday's debut of DAY ONE, new TV shows often founder by experimenting too boldly (see 20/20 and PrimeTime Live). Perhaps with that in mind, the first episode of ABC's new magazine show emphasized old-fashioned, straight-ahead journalism. Most of the program was devoted to host Forrest Sawyer's report on a Portland, Oregon, man convicted of attempted murder for sleeping with his next-door neighbor when he knew he had AIDS. It was engrossing in the familiar 60 Minutes manner: dramatic storytelling, a clear...
Even at news outlets with an internal code of conduct -- such as NBC, where the document runs to 50 pages, or ABC, where it is about 75 -- the rules are commonly described by managers as mere guidelines. Says Richard Wald, who has held senior news posts at both networks: "That's why we don't have a list of firing offenses. Ethics is not laid down in tablets -- it is judgments made over years, and some points are susceptible to change...