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...ABC's Peter Jennings used two of them in an opening paragraph on Super Tuesday. So did CBS's Dan Rather. NBC's Tom Brokaw employed a couple of them too, and his colleague Roger Mudd followed with a whole string. The popular words and phrases were variations on that old stand-by of political reporting, the expectations game-this candidate did better or worse "than expected," that candidate "had to" win here or capture some specified percentage of the vote there-and they set the tone for the evaluation of the evening's results...
...there was the narrowest in his three primary triumphs. In analyzing Mondale, the standards may have been a little more clear-cut: the networks and columnists, like the Mondale campaign, almost all emphasized Georgia's outcome as the yardstick of the former Vice President's performance. Said ABC Correspondent Brit Hume: "I wanted to be able to go on the air and report what the Mondale people thought it all meant...
...networks continued to forecast the outcome of races, often in advance of any actual tally, based on "exit polls" of people leaving voting places. While the real polls were still open, John Glenn was virtually decreed out of the race by reporters, including ABC's Jennings and NBC's Brokaw in live interviews. Said Glenn: "When you people make projections like that, it discourages an awful lot of good folks from going to the polls...
Opinion about CNN is divided among its major network rivals, which have run news stories about the trial but little of the explicit testimony. Says Executive Producer Steve Friedman of NBC's Today: "If you can broadcast hostages being taken, you can show these trials." ABC's Nightline, however, aired a critical discussion of CNN's live coverage. Said Correspondent Betsy Aaron: "These trials have become spectator sport...
...hair was burned in an accident during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial in late January, the mishap made headline news around the world. Once completed, two Pepsi commercials featuring Jackson and his brothers premiered on MTV. The next day on their national morning news shows, CBS, ABC and NBC all aired one or both spots as hot stories, not paid...