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...wants to, without any representative of the American public watching what it is doing." But many in Chancellor's audience rejected his premise that journalists stand in for the people: in 500 letters and phone calls to NBC, viewers supported the press ban in Grenada 5 to 1. ABC Anchor Peter Jennings said that "99%" of his mail from viewers on the issue supported Reagan. Newspapers also protested the exclusion, and evoked the same sort of response: the trade publication Editor and Publisher found, in an informal survey of about a dozen dailies, that letters to the editor were...
According to The Day After, the world ends with a ghastly nuclear bang. But according to another fictional program broadcast on ABC last week, the world does not end at all, thanks to the sober deliberations of U.S. and Soviet leaders. The Crisis Game, a docudrama produced by ABC News' Nightline and broadcast for four nights running, was an extraordinary TV hybrid. Ten former high Government officials, acting the unscripted parts of a President and his National Security Council, coped with an imaginary U.S.-Soviet crisis set in 1985: Ayatullah Khomeini's death, Iranian civil...
...ABC hired New York Times National Security Correspondent Leslie Gelb to help shape the program. Gelb in turn recruited a panel of seven experts, called the "control group," who wrote a 100-page briefing book and picked the players. Their apt casting for President: former Secretary of State (and presidential candidate) Edmund Muskie. His nine advisers included two former Defense Secretaries: James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Schlesinger says he and his fellow mandarins agreed to play their roles, without pay, "to demonstrate that U.S. Governments do not act in a harum-scarum manner." To that end they sat in ABC's Washington studios for 18 hours over a recent weekend. As they argued the twists and turns of the crisis before them, the controllers, watching on TV monitors, played the rest of the world-Moscow, NATO, Congress, the U.S. press...
Still, nuclear war remains a special kind of nightmare, threatening an apocalypse for the whole human race. When ABC summoned a panel to explain what its film actually meant, most of the experts claimed that it supported their own differing views. Just as Secretary of State George Shultz argued that The Day After should inspire Americans to rally around President Reagan, Astronomer Carl Sagan foresaw real danger of all life being extinguished in a state of freezing darkness. There was Robert McNamara arguing that the number of missiles must be reduced, and there was Kissinger explaining the need for tough...