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most well-known, senator david brinkley and state delegate kathy avcelli. also robin vicor in the race along with four other -- robert koblenz, peter james, and joseph christeforski. there's a hotly contested primary in the sixth district. five candidates competing for bartlett's seat. senator rob gargiola, democratic majority leader. he was the early front return, but a democratic dogfight has shaped up as potomac businessman john delaney got the endorsement of former president bill clinton and the "washington post." other candidates include a doctor who served in the air national guard in iraq, two tours of duty there. charles bail whey who is concer with job creation. rob little who says he is a citizen politician. now the polls open in maryland at 7:00 a.m. and we will have more for you on the primaries today later in this news hour. we're reporting live tonight from northwest high school in germantown, maryland. back to you in the stud. >> all right. chris gordon, thank you. >>> d.c. voters will also find five council races on primary ballots today. ma

think the news executives in the golden age of tv journalism and anchor men and commentators, david brinkley first among those, who took it as their roll to address the national community. as a national community and make sense of it in a way that may or may not have actually had a point of view, but it definitely had a set of moral valence to it. it was moralistic. and there were setting boundaries of what was permissible and what was strange and what was normal. of course that has come under a lot of criticism over the years. and what has replaced it is almost this pseudo scientific professionalized journalism in which there is this attempt to neutrally objectively report the world according to the ideology of balance. and i think it's an interesting and open question which model has done a better job of getting it right. i as a case study -- first of all, i've been riveted by "time" magazine. but i grew up with it and that was kind of my window on to the world. but even more as a historian, in my two books, i've kind of considered in the back of my mind, "time" magazine as a character. th

. >> reporter: bartlett's republican challengers include state senator david brinkley, delegate kathy akali, peter james, joseph and brandon rippian. >> i'm for brandon because i've known him a long time and i think he's a great candidate. >> they dropped conservative areas and added democratic counties. some feel this was so he would win the seat in congress. he is well known by voters in germantown. >> rob is the current state majority leader in the state house, and he has experience as opposed to an inexperienced businessman who is running against him. >> reporter: garagiola is facing stiff competition from john delaney who is endorsed by former president bill clinton and the "washington post." >> yes, delaney. >> why? >> because i think he's a fresh, new person, and i think that he would do a good job for us. >> reporter: the other democratic hopefuls in the primary are charles bailey, ron little and mula puran. this is thought to be one of the most hotly contested contests. as a result, whoever the democrat and republican candidates turn out to be, this is going to be the focus i

appears to be out front tonight holding 45% of this vote in a contested primary, next closest david brinkley. bartlett now appears to be on track and out front. however, this is a close race. we'll continue to monitor this on the republican side of the maryland 6th district. let's go over to the democratic side of the 6th district. this has been a barn burner. businessman john delaney and the majority leader of the democratic maryland state senate rob garagiola had been locked in bake and forth for days, delaney out front right now -- a back and forth for days, delaney out front right now, 54%. we saw a split in this race the last couple days, former president bill clinton endorsing john delaney, maryland democratic governor martin o'malley endorsing joe garagiola. as it appears now delaney out in front in the 6th district congressional race. >> there starting with the at large council seat held by vincent orange facing three challengers. he holds a slight edge now, although sekou biddle threatening to dethrone him, a tight race going into the late hours. in ward 4 democratic incumbent murie

. >> reporter: his republican challengers include state senator david brinkley, kathy absoly, robertands, peter james -- >> i'm for brandon because i've known him a long time. i think he's a great candidate. >> reporter: the state legislator change the the sixth district map dropping conservative areas and adding democratic voters here in western montgomery county. some feel the map was drawn so state senator rob garagiola would win the seat in the u.s. congress. he's endorsed by o'malley and known by the voters in germantown. >> rob is the current state majority leader in the state house. and he has experience as opposed to an inexperienced businessman who is running against him. >> reporter: gar ji ol a has received stiff competition. >> yes, delaney. >> why? >> because i think he's a fresh new person, and i think that he would do a good job for us. >> reporter: the other democratic hopefuls in the primary are charles bailey, ron little and pullon. no matter who the democratic and republican candidates turn out to be, it is anticipated that this will be the most hotly contested con

most well-known, senator david brinkley and delegate kathy abcelli.in vicor is in the race along with four others seeking the republican congressional nomination. now the primary has become a referendum on bartlett's record and whether new leadership is needed for the republican party in this district. now let's go over to the democratic primary where there are five candidates competing to run for bartlett's seat in the u.s. congress. when the redistricting added parts of montgomery county, it was at first thought that the district was drawn especially for state senator rob gargiola, the state democratic majority leader in the general assembly. but a democratic dogfight shaped up as potomac financier john delaney advertised heavily that he was being endorsed by president clinton and the "washington post." polls show he is ahead in fundraising, and it's a very tight race with a lot of voters undecided. polls here at northwest high school in germantown open at 7:00. we'll have more as the morning progresses. back to you now in the studio. >> chris gordo

walter cronkite at cbs news, david brinkley of nbc to read later of abc. howard k. smith who left cbs to acre abc. when you were watching them on television you were getting an authentic person, that the creation of focus groups, make up artists, and publicity people . these were genuine journalists. i can promise you that the way they came across was very much the way that a word person. the personality of each man was subtly different. this dough possible there were intensive background and journalistic philosophy. remarkable, all worse others. the southern background turned out to be very important to how they approached probably the most important story of their times at hours, the civil-rights movement of the 1860's. as yet been done of these three had been inactive list for racial equality . carcanet actually confessed that as the event he had not had the courage to challenge his teenage friends with a made racist remarks. but all of these men had seen enough racism itself to know that it was morally wrong to perpetuate a system that plainly failed to enforce

and in it brian williams and alec baldwin parodied the 1960s nbc anchor team of david brinkley and ted huntley, acting like they'd never seen a female correspondent before. >> look, honey, you have a dine mate shape but you're going to have to shut up and let a man tell us what's happening there. is your fair or a policeman nearby? >> now where did you find that microphone, sugar mouth? >> this just in to nbc male news reporter jamie garnet is missing. >> wow, how far we've come. for those of you on the east coast, though, you saw jon hamm sitting in for brian, and the star-studded cameo, paul mccartney appeared in the east coast version and kim kardashian for the west, along with a gaggle of favorites "snl" alumni. big hit. really well. 7:11 right now. back to ann, carl and al. a night of good laughs. >> one day we're going to do this show live. >> don't get any big ideas. >> right. >> all right. mr. roker, tell us about the weather this weekend. >> i'm going to be played -- let's see what's going on. we had a risk of strong storms today firing up in the midwest. denver, north platte.