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  • July 2008

    • All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama

      Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 08 3:40 PM CDT

      All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama

      (Newser) - Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will all be part of Barack Obama’s foreign trip that begins later this week, Howard Kurtz reveals in the Washington Post —as the Dem’s campaign impressively “draws the anchors halfway around the world by offering access.” The ABC, CBS and NBC anchors will interview the candidate on separate nights in different countries. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Katie Couric  • Brian Williams  • network news  • Charles Gibson

  • May 2008

    • Anchors (Except for Katie) Just Don't Get It

      Salon  |  May 28, 08 9:13 PM CDT

      Anchors (Except for Katie) Just Don't Get It

      (Newser) - Katie Couric thinks Scott McClellan has a point with his criticism of the media in the lead-up to the war, but Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams beg to differ—and that's a disgrace, writes Glenn Greenwald in Salon. During a get-together of network anchors, the "painfully empty-headed Gibson" and the "mindlessly establishment-defending" Williams said the media offered plenty of skepticism, but Greenwald counters that today's celebrity journalists simply don't understand their own profession. More »

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      Iraq war  • Katie Couric  • Scott McClellan  • Brian Williams  • network news  • Charles Gibson

    • Networks Will Partner For Cancer Telethon

      New York Times  |  May 27, 08 4:10 PM CDT

      Networks Will Partner For Cancer Telethon

      (Newser) - ABC, CBS and NBC have decided to work together to fight cancer, the New York Times reports. Each network's lead news anchor will appear on a Sept. 5 telethon broadcast on all three channels simultaneously. The principles—CBS's Katie Couric, NBC's Brian Williams and ABC's Charlie Gibson—have all lost immediate relatives to cancer. More »

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      cancer  • NBC  • CBS  • cancer research  • ABC  • Katie Couric  • Brian Williams  • television news  • network news  • Charles Gibson

  • April 2008

    • ABC Debate Hosts 'Shoddy, Despicable'

      Washington Post  |  Apr 17, 08 6:22 AM CDT

      ABC Debate Hosts 'Shoddy, Despicable'

      (Newser) - No winner emerged in last night's Democratic presidential debate, but for one columnist the loser was clear: ABC News. Over the course of a commercial-crammed broadcast, moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous dwelled on petty half-controversies to incite Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to get nasty, writes Tom Shales of the Washington Post . More »

    • Couric's Not Only Thing Networks Should Toss

      BusinessWeek  |  Apr 15, 08 9:11 PM CDT

      Couric's Not Only Thing Networks Should Toss

      (Newser) - Evening network news, with or without Katie Couric aboard, is going nowhere, Ron Grover writes in BusinessWeek —then offers suggestions on what the TV giants should do to hook viewers: Make the news available on the viewers' time: Get big-name anchors on tape earlier, and put those newscasts online. More »

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      NBC  • CBS  • ABC  • Katie Couric  • Brian Williams  • network news  • CBS Evening News  • Charles Gibson  • Anderson Cooper

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