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Susan McDougal is in jail for contempt after refusing to answer Starr's questions before a grand jury. Having been granted immunity for anything other than perjury, Susan can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege. In various interviews since her conviction, including an appearance on ABC's 20/20, Susan has cited her fear and distrust of Starr and his prosecutors as her reason for silence. That distrust seems genuine, but it is hardly the full explanation...
Women made history on election night a week ago, ABC news correspondent Lynn Sherr told a packed room last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...event coordinators were unprepared for the crowd of about 600 students who flocked to the Media Fair in order to speak with representatives from MTV Animation, Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks and National Geographic, among others. Odotei said HRTV hopes to include media magnates such as Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, ABC, NBC, HBO and ESPN in next year's fair and that increased support from OCS could make it happen...
...takes an old guy. To shake up network "news," that is. It's not often that we at Dartboard hook up to the tube. (We prefer to be wired to the Internet.) But we couldn't have been more pleased to see the cutting edge of election coverage on ABC, just past 12:30 a.m. on election night this past Tuesday. David Brinkley, the veteran anchor, took the president to task for being the do-nothing milk-mustached little boy that he is. "We can all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full...
Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, found it necessary to interrupt Brinkley: "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley." To which Brinkley rightly responded, "Well, I'm not on the air." He's not, anymore, and he is finally liberated to inject some reality into TV-land, which otherwise throws up as a knee-jerk reaction those democratic platitudes we have all had to tolerate since news became corporate domain. Journalism as honesty? Journalism as the relation of reality? Journalism as acerbic sarcasm? Nyet. "You can't say that on the air, Mr. Brinkley...