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...story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where World News Tonight Anchor Peter Jennings was fighting off a bad cold. After opening Monday's newscast with sniffles and a rasping voice, he passed the baton to Ted Koppel, who wanted to be in Manila but was stuck...
...more and more becoming a super-reporter, traveling to major news stories and taking much of the network's news operations with him in a traveling road show of electronic gadgetry. Though none of the three evening news anchors went to the Philippines last week, NBC's Brokaw and ABC's Jennings were in the country three weeks earlier for the presidential elections. All three anchors were in Geneva last November for the summit and in Mexico City in September to report on the earthquake. Jennings anchored 19 newscasts from foreign locations last year, including Paris, Bitburg and Hiroshima...
...technology of television. Compact editing and control- room equipment and other video gear can now be transported across the globe without great difficulty. If satellite transmission stations are not available locally, they can be packed up and shipped in. Instant satellite hookups last week made possible such scenes as ABC Commentator George Will sparring with Soviet Journalist Vladimir Posner in Moscow, and President Corazon Aquino in the Philippines being interviewed by Dan Rather in the farm belt...
...ease with which a network producer can press a button and bring in a distant image got ABC into trouble with the White House on Wednesday night following President Reagan's nationally televised speech on defense spending. Taking advantage of its hookup with Moscow, the network gave Posner an opportunity to comment for seven minutes. This infuriated Patrick J. Buchanan, Reagan's director of communications, who criticized ABC in a letter for giving air time to a "trained propagandist." Richard Wald, ABC News senior vice president, agreed in a statement that the network had erred by "letting (Posner) push...
...incident, however, in a week in which the Philippines dominated the news shows. The network anchors admitted to some frustration at being far away from the big story. But they defended the decision to stay put. "We had been planning to do this for some time," said Jennings of ABC's coverage of the 27th Communist Party congress in Moscow. "That was a four-day revolution, and you can't chase after every hot story of the week." ABC did send Ted Koppel and his Nightline crew to cover the story. But after leaving New York City for the Philippines...