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...remains television's finest news organization by a wide margin. The network's news executives liken their 1,000-member staff to a ball club with superior depth at every position. With so many good people around, however, CBS is slow to provide challenges and advancement. Says Fred Friendly, former CBS News president and now a Columbia University journalism professor: "What producers and reporters want more than anything else is to get on the air. If another network can promise that, throw away the school...
...commercial networks will get a prod in the direction of providing more news come June, when Atlanta Braves Owner Ted Turner launches his Cable News Network. CNN will feature round-the-clock news highlighted by a prime-time broadcast from 8 to 10 p.m. The new network will also provide extensive coverage of sports and business, topics that get little attention on the major networks' evening news. Although a midget by commercial standards, CNN promises to be a feisty competitor, with seven domestic and three foreign bureaus reporting to its Atlanta headquarters. Turner has budgeted more than $20 million...
...rejuvenation has already substantially improved the quality of the network news on a night-to-night basis. The speed with which television reports events is a technological marvel. Says Bill Leonard of CBS: "TV has become like radio in its instant global capability. In the past two years, thanks to the satellite and the electronic camera [giving reporters the ability to transmit from the field], we have a capability that is immeasurably larger...
...sassed him? Yet Nixon's question was oddly on target. Rather was indeed running for something that night, had been running for it all of his adult life, and would continue to do so long after Nixon resigned. He made his goal perfectly clear to the network executives bidding for his services: "I'd like to lead, and I want to be the best reporter of my time." Rather does not claim to be there yet, but when he takes over for Walter Cronkite next year, an immense audience will be on hand to watch...
...transmission of radar pictures of the huge storm to home screens and kept talking throughout three days of high wind and water. His derring-do and endurance caught the eye of CBS. Walter Cronkite remarked admiringly, if incorrectly, that Rather "was up to his ass in water moccasins." The network offered Rather a correspondent's job at $17,500 a year. Happily settled in his Houston post, he thought twice and then accepted...