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Over the years, Murphy developed a knack for spotting golden opportunities. After three decades of acquisition and diversification, Capital Cities now consists of seven television stations (four of them ABC affiliates), 54 cable- TV systems, 12 radio stations, 27 weekly newspapers, 10 dailies and 45 other publications, including those of the Fairchild group (Women's Wear Daily, W and M) and Institutional Investor...
...eternal optimist whose most striking executive quality is said to be his ability to instill self- confidence in his managers. But even Murphy admits to having some trepidation when he considered the prospect of taking over a major network. On the day before he signed the agreement to buy ABC, he stopped for inspiration at another famous institution across the street from his office: St. Patrick's Cathedral...
Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
Rather, with his tense, incisive delivery and the backing of a better news staff, has a steady ascendancy in the ratings over his gentler anchorman rivals, Tom Brokaw of NBC and Peter Jennings of ABC. (Yet when occasions require it, Brokaw, perhaps as a result of his long early morning servitude on the Today show, is a better interviewer.) The right wing's enmity toward Rather, based on things like the time he impudently sassed back President Nixon, makes some conservatives eager to buy CBS just to control him. Such is the presumed influence of men hired to report...
Their personalities seem fixed, but like the politicians they cover, the five do change. Sam Donaldson once gave rude behavior its name; he is still stentorian, but on ABC's David Brinkley show, he questions guests intelligently. His colleague George Will has also changed but believes he has not. Will first surfaced as a conservative polemicist. On becoming a highly articulate TV interviewer, he crowded his guests, suggesting that they were not sufficiently militant about intervening in Lebanon, Syria or Nicaragua. If Will emerged seeming bolder and more candid than the person he interviewed, his guest--a politician, a bureaucrat...