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- <text id=94TT0032>
- <title>
- Jan. 17, 1994: To Our Readers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 17, 1994 Genetics:The Future Is Now
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TO OUR READERS, Page 12
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> What do the high-powered pundits on CNN's Capital Gang talk
- about when the cameras aren't on? Health care and welfare reform?
- No. The subtleties of China policy? Not exactly. The Washington
- Redskins? "That's more like it," says White House correspondent
- Margaret Carlson, who became a regular member of the gang last
- fall. "Every Saturday afternoon before the show there's this
- towel-snapping get-together with three guys who are always talking
- about football when I get there."
- </p>
- <p> Carlson and Elaine Shannon, who covers the guns, spies and wiretaps
- beat for TIME, are among Washington's newest talking heads.
- For several months Shannon has been on the weekly news-analysis
- series To the Contrary. The two join congressional correspondent
- Julie Johnson, who is often seen on PBS's Washington Week in
- Review and ABC's This Week with David Brinkley; national-security
- correspondent Bruce van Voorst, a contributor to the MacNeil/Lehrer
- News-Hour; and chief political correspondent Michael Kramer,
- who holds forth periodically on the Charlie Rose Show on PBS.
- </p>
- <p> A veteran print reporter, Shannon initially found the transition
- to TV daunting. "TV forces you to get right to the point. It
- helps if you're simpleminded," says the Georgia native, deadpan.
- </p>
- <p> Carlson seldom has time to catch her breath on the war of words
- that is CNN's Capital Gang. She spends Saturday evenings struggling
- to be heard above the din raised by Al Hunt, Mark Shields and
- Robert Novak, who says Carlson's work on the White House beat
- makes her a valuable addition to the program. "She's not a stuffed-chair
- pundit. And I'm sure Margaret won't like me saying this, but
- more than any of the women we've had on the show, she's one
- of the boys."
- </p>
- <p> "One of the boys?" responds Carlson, incredulous. "Well, I guess
- that's more p.c. than calling me one of the girls." Watch out,
- Novak. That comment might just have earned you Margaret's "Outrage
- of the Week" on next week's show.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
- <p> President
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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