An award-winning print and television journalist takes readers on his own journey to fame, fortune, and disillusionment as a lead reporter and media star. Photographs.
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From Publishers Weekly
Replete with closeups of famous people, this lively autobiography is filled with wryly humorous anecdotes. Graham, trained as a lawyer, worked as a legal reporter for the New York Times from 1964 to 1972, then in a similar capacity with CBS-TV until 1987. At the network he reported on the legal aspects of Watergate, Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation and the Pentagon Papers, and covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and the FBI. During his years at CBS, Graham saw the news division change its emphasis from reporting and analyzing major events to "infotainment" as the rating wars intensified. Forced out of his network job, he became an anchor and senior editor at WKRN-TV in Nashville, where he had practiced law. Unsuccessful at "happy talk," the mainstay of local news broadcasting, he lasted slightly more than a year. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Graham, who covered legal issues for CBS News, shares his insider information on Dan Rather. He does this in the context of a captivatingly good read, as he tells his own TV story: moving from the New York Times to CBS in Washington in the Watergate years; learning on-the-job "how to do TV"; brushing against Rather along the way; being moved out to try his hand as a local anchor. Graham holds the reader's attention, especially those readers who want to know what TV network correspondents and local anchors really do. Recommended for general collections and for younger readers.
- Abraham A. Bass, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Abraham A. Bass, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Supreme Court, Evening News, New York, Dan Rather, White House, Morning News, Walter Cronkite, Pike Papers, Face the Nation, Spiro Agnew, The Supremest Court, President Nixon, Reporters Committee, News Division, Can Man, Pentagon Papers, Going Pains, Byron White, Lesley Stahl, First Amendment, United States, Anne Holt, Capitol Hill, Richard Nixon, Justice Department Browse Sample Pages:
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The Can Man was in trouble, and so was I. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
meaningful happy talk, law correspondent, legal correspondent, star anchor, part their hair, local anchor, anchor desk Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Evening News, New York, Dan Rather, White House, Morning News, Walter Cronkite, Pike Papers, Face the Nation, Spiro Agnew, The Supremest Court, President Nixon, Reporters Committee, News Division, Can Man, Pentagon Papers, Going Pains, Byron White, Lesley Stahl, First Amendment, United States, Anne Holt, Capitol Hill, Richard Nixon, Justice Department Browse Sample Pages:
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