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While the meeting produced more talk than action, its high-powered guest list and coverage by some 700 journalists, including anchors of ABC and CNN national networks, lent it a tone of drama and urgency. Not since Franklin Roosevelt's day had a President called the nation's Governors together. Topping F.D.R.'s agenda was a search for ways to cope with the Depression. Bush sought to deal with a crisis whose long-range results could prove no less catastrophic for American power and prosperity: the failure of U.S. schools to teach the basic skills needed to keep Americans productive...
...coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed, network baseball in general is getting a dunking. Next season CBS takes over major-league baseball's broadcast rights (currently divided between NBC and ABC) but will deliver only twelve games, plus the play-offs and the World Series. That means Saturday-afternoon-at-the- ball-park broadcasts (begun on NBC in 1957) will no longer be a weekly freebie. Those sports fans who do not have cable now have another reason to get wired: ESPN...
...most famous man in China this summer seems to be Xiao Bing, the "rumormonger" who was sentenced to ten years in prison for "exaggerating" the Tiananmen death toll in an interview with ABC News (he said 20,000 had died). Absolutely everyone knows the tale of Xiao. "Xiao Bing makes a point about the future," says an economics professor in Chengdu. "The people in Beijing were there -- and so may be very willing to take to the streets again. But we elsewhere are more cautious. It's not that the propaganda campaign is working. Most of us know full well...
...present in Shanghai, one of three Chinese cities directly under the national government's jurisdiction. There, a lobby notice in the Hilton hotel duly conforms to official policy: WESTERN NEWSPAPERS ARE UNAVAILABLE. But upstairs, there they are. The hotel's televisions air the supposedly banned daily news shows of ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN -- all broadcasting press conferences by Chinese dissidents who have escaped Beijing's dragnet...
...PREPPIE MURDER (ABC, Sept. 24, 9 p.m. EDT). The tabloid shows had a field day with it. Now the case of Jennifer Levin -- the New York City teenager killed during a session of "rough sex" in Central Park -- is rehashed as a TV movie...