Dutting a GLEAM in the EYE

摘要

It's 6:42 P.M. in the control room at the CBS Broadcast Center on New York's West Side, halfway through the 'CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley'. The booth adjacent to the set is about half-full and in the state of controlled chaos that is a live broadcast. The female executive producer and three male senior producers, most of whom are 20-plus-year veterans of CBS News, are seated in front of monitors in one row, wearing headsets, barking cues to cut this segment or stretch that one. The production secretary runs pages of the updated script up to the director in the front row as they stream, almost continuously, out of a printer behind her.