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...ABC News-Washington Post poll, conducted Saturday and Sunday and published in yesterday's Post, gave Simon the lead with 39 percent support to Jackson's 34 percent among very likely Democratic voters. Dukakis had 17 percent with Gore and Gephardt far behind. The potential sampling error was plus or minus 6 percentage points...
Meet the latest innovation in network political coverage: the off-air reporter-producer and all-around campaign shadow. With no front runners and no bottomless buckets of money, the networks decided at the outset against deploying a correspondent and camera crew with each of the 13 candidates. But ABC and CBS still wanted a daily presence on the campaign bus. So each created high-tech updates of the newspaper cub reporter. Mostly less experienced, and therefore less expensive, the tyros have been assigned, in campaign parlance, to stick with the "body." From Iowa to New Hampshire and across the South...
...fact, the minutiae of what the shadows know make them a valued resource for the rest of the press corps as well. "She's a campaign institution," says Los Angeles Times Reporter Robert Gillette of ABC's Marianne Keeley, 28, who covers Jackson. Nonstop involvement with a campaign can cause problems; executives back in New York City have occasionally had to warn about getting too close to a candidate. But the body watchers' unceasing presence has also led to scoops. At a Florida stop two weeks ago, ABC's Dan Noyes, 29, previously a producer on Good Morning America, instructed...
...prime time ABC-TV show, Spenser for Hire, has been given permission totape episodes at Harvard in the past, however,"That's a program with taste," Epps said of theshow which stars Robert Urich as a privateinvestigator with a strong right hook...
Never mind the Southern primaries; TV's own Super Tuesday came last week, as ABC's Olympics coverage vied with the unfolding story from New Hampshire. NBC and CBS each weighed in with an hour-long election special (NBC's in prime time), and CBS's 48 Hours devoted its entire hour to a behind-the-scenes look at New Hampshire campaigning. ABC, locked into Olympics coverage for most of the evening, squeezed in reports from Anchorman Peter Jennings before a half- hour wrap-up at midnight Eastern standard time. ABC's last-of-the-evening program was, bravely...