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...event will be co-sponsored by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and will be held either in Washington D.C. or at Harvard K-School professors will draw up a plan of action afterwards, and the participating policymakers will try to implement it, Kevin Gottlieb, a liaison between the K-School and ABC, said yesterday...
...agenda will focus on two issues--voter participation and the quality of information the media distributes to citizens, ABC Vice-President George H. Watson, Jr. '58 said...
...ABC will pay for the entire event, using the symposium as a springboard for a one-to two-hour documentary on the media's role in electoral politics, Watson said...
Donaldson wins no popularity contests with the Reagan team. In fact, he says he was told that an Administration official once warned ABC executives that the White House might revoke Donaldson's press pass. One reason Donaldson has since been able to achieve peace with the Administration, suggests former longtime CBS White House Correspondent Robert Pierpoint, is that the confrontational style, far from putting the President on the spot, "has played right into Reagan's hands. Donaldson and others intrude with a simple shot, and Reagan bounces it back with a shallow quip that plays beautifully onscreen...
...string network rivals and almost twice as long as one of his most celebrated predecessors, NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw. Says Donaldson: "It takes a certain resiliency to persevere in covering the White House-or, a critic might say, a dullness of wit." He has tried out as anchor on ABC's Sunday-night newscast and on Nightline when Ted Koppel is away. But whatever else he may do in his career, he is unlikely to find a job that better suits his talents and temperament than jousting with Presidents. "I love this business," he says. "Every...