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...sing-along of gospel and folk tunes, and shakes hands with the regulars at the end of a swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also...
...notable exception is the group accompanying Jesse Jackson: ABC, NBC and CBS have consistently included blacks among the producers or reporters sent to cover him, as have the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and TIME. Perhaps half of the journalists in the entourages are new to covering national campaigns. Says Bernard Weinraub, a veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times: "It looked like something that I ought to try once, and now that I have, once seems like it may be the right number." But many an editor or pundit - a "big foot...
...first time this year, a gain of more than 20% over last season. Endorsements by big-name racers have become a key competitive factor among ski companies. Most firms are too small to afford network TV commercials, so manufacturers try for some free exposure on programs like ABC's Wide World of Sports by putting their boldly trademarked ski poles and stretch pants on winning racers...
Visually, the apotheosis of TV star journalism was ABC's nuclear panel that followed The Day After. Like a Supreme Court Justice, Koppel stared down at the likes of Henry Kissinger, James Schlesinger, Robert McNamara, who tried to catch his eye or answer his questions. In New Hampshire Koppel sat democratically alongside the eight candidates, visually their equal, not their superior...
Moreover, though young people are generally more educated than older generations, they are singularly uninformed on current events. Surveys have shown that college students rarely watch the TV news or regularly read daily newspapers. In fact, according to a recent ABC study, nearly 80 percent of 18 to 25 year olds could not name a single Democratic candidate...