Over the years, several television newsmen, not understanding that they were famous only for being famous, have run for political office.

Richard W. Carlson, a former television newsman, has been asked by the White House to stay on as director.

"I made a lot of money as a television newsman," he said.

Mr. Beutel was not merely the first local television newsman - or so he believes - to report from Vietnam, in 1965.

Kramer found himself shaking his head, to indicate how saddened he was by the obstinacy of television newsmen.

Dan Rea, a television newsman: "I learned sociology in a shoe box.

Also hired at the same time was another Midwestern television newsman, Tom Brokaw.

He once said that television newsmen had an obligation to "take sides on public issues."

An extraordinarily influential television newsman and an extraordinarily powerful network have reached an abrupt parting of the ways.

The television newsman's journal for 1999, with observations on matters political and personal.