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...were Ralph Nader, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan, who cheerfully remarked that "it certainly is a distinguished blacklist to be on." TV news was represented by CBS's Walter Cronkite, whose only apparent threat to Reagan is in surpassing him in on-the-air avuncularity, and ABC's David Brinkley, who pronounced himself "delighted." Print journalists included the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the Atlantic's James Fallows and TIME International Editor Karsten Prager...
...Administration's shenanigans had barely begun. White House Chief of Staff James Baker privately berated Feldstein and ordered him to cancel a scheduled appearance over the weekend on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley. The Treasury Secretary denied reports that he had demanded Feldstein be fired, but, Regan admitted, "I urged that differences between us be kept quiet...
...ABC reporters and executives steeled themselves to cover the Olympics by taking practice runs down precipitous worst-case scenarios, but they could hardly have expected the succession of misfortunes-natural, mechanical and even political-that befell the network during the Games' opening week. Said Jim McKay: "You know the old line about the best laid plans of mice and men. I don't know how the mice made out, but the men have had a tough time...
Roone Arledge is losing money through his teeth these days. The first week of the 1984 Winter Olympics was a television ratings fiasco. This year's audiences are 50 percent smaller than four years ago, and ABC, which carries the games, has been continually swamped by competition from other networks...
...past three months, ABC has aired clip after clip of the breathtaking sequence when Mike Eruzione netted the goal that hoisted the 1980 U.S. hockey team towards the gold at the Soviet Union's expense. Pamdemonium! National pride! Miracle on ice! Blah, blah, blah...will it happen again? became the inevitable supposition...