MediaWatch: November 1992
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: November 1992
- Selective Post-Debate Truth Squads
- NewsBites: Mandate for What?
- Revolving Door: Clinton's Network Help
- Networks Say "Extreme" GOP Convention at Fault
- Bush Loss is Reagan's Fault
- NBC's Ross Dogs Dems
- Simon's Sermons
- Janet Cooke Award: CBS Reporter Eric Engberg, Running on Empty
Revolving Door: Clinton's Network Help
Clinton's Network Help
Among those likely to get a position in the new Clinton Administration: Heidi Schulman, a 17-year veteran of NBC News. Married to Clinton campaign Chairman Mickey Kantor, Schulman served on Hillary Clinton's staff and handled Hollywood celebrities for the Democratic ticket. When she left NBC in 1990, Schulman was covering Hollywood for Today. During the 1980 presidential campaign, Schulman and Chris Wallace made up NBC's two-person team covering future President Reagan.
Left and Right Moves
The St. Petersburg Times has promoted Eileen Shanahan to Washington Bureau Chief. An economics reporter for the Florida paper for several months, Shanahan spent 15 years in The New York Times Washington bureau before becoming Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HEW under Jimmy Carter in 1977....Sherrie Rollins, Assistant to the President for Public Liaison until her husband, Ed Rollins, joined the Perot campaign, has landed a new position. She's become Senior Vice President of communications for Mort Zuckerman's publications: U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic and the newly acquired New York Daily News. From mid-1990 until this past Spring Rollins served as Director of News Information at ABC News, a position she took after a couple of years handling public affairs for Jack Kemp at HUD.
Hill Reporter
Former television news reporter Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky ran as a Democrat to fill an open U.S. House seat representing suburban Philadelphia. On November 3, she won. A long time reporter for CBS-owned WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, she also regularly contributed stories to NBC's Today during the 1980s.
GOP Senate Slides
The newly appointed President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Richard Carlson, has selected Philip Smith to serve as Vice President for corporate communications. A Washington Post reporter for 14 years who had risen to assistant Foreign Editor by the time he left in 1985, Smith has worked as Press Secretary to Virginia Republican Senator John Warner since 1985....
Warner's Minnesota colleague, Republican Dave Durenburger, has hired Kevin Quinn as a Legislative Assistant for health issues. From 1981 to 1985 Quinn reported for The Wall Street Journal from the paper's Toronto bureau. Since then, he's held health policy positions with the Saskatchewan government.
Ghostwriting for Lieberman
Jamie Stiehm spent 1987 and much of 1988 as an assignment editor for CBS News in its London bureau. Returning to the states in 1988 to work for the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, Roll Call reported that she became a field organizer in the San Jose area. Now, she's joined the Capitol Hill office of Senator Joseph Lieberman where she'll write speeches for the Connecticut Democrat.
In a January 1989 op-ed piece for the Christian Science Monitor, Stiehm complained: "It was easy, all too easy, to like Mr. Reagan the man or myth, even if you disagreed with almost everything he did in practice."
