ANCHORING AMERICA The Changing Face of Network News Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: December 7, 1941 Spreading the News Washington Reacts Murrow’s Influence Part One The Pioneers Chapter One Edward R. Murrow A Brass Set Anschluss . . . Get There! The Murrow Boys Go to War A Rising Star A Radio Blitz From a Uniform to a Suit Hear it Now, See it Now Taking on McCarthy Hail Murrow The Legacy Chapter Two Douglas Edwards, CBS The Right Stuff There’s a Radio Announcer Upstairs in the Bedroom Joining the Murrow Gang . . . Sort Of The Sweet Smell of Television News The Birth of Network News A Guiding Light Fades Out
Chapter Three John Cameron Swayze, NBC Growing Up on the Chisholm Trail Chances and Camels Making Impressions He Keeps on Ticking
Chapter Four John Charles Daly, ABC “We Interrupt This Program…” Hold on to Patton “Will the Next Guest Enter and Sign in, Please?” The Politics of News Live—at What Cost? He Did It All! Part Two The Golden Years
Chapter Five Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC From Quiz Shows and Westerns Huntley Gets “Train-ed” Brinkley’s Voice Change Huntley and Who?: Conventional Wisdom Pumped Up by Texaco The Kennedy Years A Ratings War: Who Crosses the Line? “I’m Not Going to Get Into the Gutter . . .” Goodnight David, Goodnight Chet
Chapter Six Walter Cronkite, CBS A True Trailblazer Setting a (President) or Two The Murrow-to-Cronkite Transition Thirteen Days of Hell “And That’s the Way It Is” “Three Shots Were Fired” Of Ratings and Hurt Feelings “Go, Baby, Go” A War and a Scandal How Dare the CIA! He Reports, You Decide And That’s the Way It Will Be
Chapter Seven Frank Reynolds, ABC Early Values Conventional Wisdom Reynolds versus Agnew The Roone Years “Damn It, Somebody Get Me . . .” Reynolds Wrap: A Hollywood-Style Sendoff
Chapter Eight Howard K. Smith, ABC The Story Man from Storyville Lost in Love I Pledge Allegiance? Howard and Harry As the Network Turns
Chapter Nine Harry Reasoner, ABC Lou Grant Reasoner and Smith and Walters The Stopwatch Winds Down
Chapter Ten John Chancellor, NBC Honest John Big Dreams, and Then… “I’ve Been Promised Bail” The Voice of America Riding Off Into…Well, Not Yet Two Years and Eighteen Minutes Later Knowing His Left from His Right Happier Trails
Part Three The Changing of the Guard Chapter Eleven Barbara Walters, ABC Today and Tomorrow Music Up, Dissolve to the Biography It’s Getting Harry A Little Ditty ’bout Barbara and Diane The Tough Question Chapter Twelve Max Robinson, ABC Hiding Behind a Slide The Crooked Mirror Reynolds’s Funeral Was Robinson’s It’s Not Always Black and White Chapter Thirteen Peter Jennings, ABC The Early Years The Americanization of Peter Not Ready for Prime Time The World Tour Munich, 1972 Three’s a Crowd Musical Chairs, Jennings Wins A Front Row Seat for History A Sterling Success Chapter Fourteen Dan Rather, CBS Rather’s Career “Rockets Forward” “I Can’t Be a Robot” The Arledge Call Filling Cronkite’s Shoes…or Not? Bushwhacked The Viciously Competitive Pit Will There be Life After Dan Rather? Chapter Fifteen Tom Brokaw, NBC Job Hunting and Fishing Today and Tomorrow It’s Getting Muddy “Fear and Adrenaline!” The “Brokaw Law” The Need for News Chapter Sixteen Connie Chung Sunset Boulevard Face to Face with Maury The “Bitch” Incident Good News and Bad News Killing the Evening News?
Chapter Seventeen Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, PBS The Robin Landed in News Stepping Up to the Plate Believing Part Four The Challenge of Cable News Chapter Eighteen CNN From Billboards to Boardrooms Breaking Tradition Turner Wants More As Atlanta Turns, So Does the World Changing the Television Landscape Chapter Nineteen Since 1995 Chapter Twenty September 11, 2001 Tom Brokaw Peter Jennings Dan Rather What Happens If You Subtract the Anchors from the Broadcast? What Happens If You Subtract the Evening News From the Equation? The Future News Landscape Suggested Reading
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