MediaWatch: June 1994
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: June 1994
- Network Contrast of Hill and Jones Show Dramatic Differences in Coverage, Tone
- NewsBites: Festival of Hate?
- Revolving Door: Selling Sarbanes
- Media Mourn 17-Count Indictment as Tragedy for the Country
- DDT, Eco-Racism Threats?
- Blaming the Victim?
- Raines Rains on Reagan
- Janet Cooke Award: Newsweek Hailed Hill, But Questions Jones' Credibility and Sexual Behavior
Revolving Door: Selling Sarbanes
Selling Sarbanes
A year after assuming the Press Secretary
duties for liberal Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, Bill
Toohey left Capitol Hill, but he hasn't left the Senate staff. Roll Call
reported that Toohey relocated to Baltimore as state Press
Secretary for Maryland's other Democratic Senator, Paul
Sarbanes. Except for a one-year stint in 1975 with NBC's now
defunct all-news radio service, from 1971 to 1979 Toohey was
National Public Radio's New York Bureau Chief.
One More at NSC
Jonathan Spalter, a MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
producer before joining the Clinton-Gore campaign, has moved
across the Potomac to become the fourth member of the National
Security Council public relations operation. Since last year
he's held the lengthy title at the Defense Department of Special
Assistant to the Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Policy.
Spalter augments a PR team heavy with network experience. NSC's
Senior Director for Public Affairs is Thomas Ross, a former
Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times and Senior Vice President of NBC News. Tara Sonenshine, NSC's Deputy Director for Communications, was a Nightline producer for most of the 1980s.
Moving Up, Down & Around
Emil Guillermo, Press
Secretary to U.S. Rep. Norm Mineta (D-Calif.) since early last
year, has returned to television as a reporter and weekend
anchor for Newschannel 8, a Washington, D.C. area all-news cable
service. From 1989 to 1991 Guillermo was the weekend co-host of NPR's All Things Considered.
In the early '80s he was a reporter for San Francisco's
KRON-TV....Bob Zelnick, Pentagon reporter for ABC News for the
past six years, has assumed new duties in the Washington bureau as
head of a new investigative unit. In 1972 Zelnick worked as a
Legislative Researcher for Congressman Henry Reuss, a Wisconsin
Democrat....James Rowe, Vice President and General Counsel for NBC's
Washington office, has traveled north to become Director of
Federal and Community Affairs for Harvard University. Before
joining NBC in 1992 he was Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary
Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice chaired by liberal
Democrat Charles Schumer....Vernon Guidry, press and policy
assistant to Defense Secretary Les Aspin, has switched bosses.
Guidry, who covered the defense beat for the Baltimore Sun for much of the '80s, is now an assistant to Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch....The Washingtonian reported in May that The Washington Post
hired Claudia Townsend, Associate Press Secretary to President
Carter, as its Metro section political editor. Before joining
the Carter White House she was a Cox Newspapers Washington
bureau reporter....
On the GOP side, Sherrie Rollins, Senior VP for Communications for Mort Zuckerman's New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report, has jumped back to ABC where she had served as Director of Information for ABC News in the late '80s. She left ABC to run President Bush's public liaison office. She's now overseeing the communications operations for the news, entertainment and sports divisions.
Chase Goes Live
In last month's item on Sylvia Chase we misidentified her as a 20/20 correspondent. She works for Prime Time Live.
