Bernie's Time Machine: Preparing for the Live Shot

Stressful? Distracting? Yes.

“Let’s go through it.”

It’s amazing the decades-old media-clips that randomly turn up on the Internet. Here’s one from 1986, at the CBS Atlanta branch. I was preparing to give live with CBS News anchor Dan Rather to report on the midterm elections.

As you can see, there’s a lot going on in such situations — lots of moving parts, including last-minute deci…