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...incidents that have brought racism into the public eye, students said, were the anti-Black flier that was slipped under a door into a room where Black women were gathered last January, and a February campus radio station broadcast of jokes with racial slurs...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Michigan Students Rally Against Racism | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

Rather, Brokaw and Jennings compete directly in only 112 of the nation's 205 TV markets; in many instances affiliates have shifted the programs to make room for more profitable game shows. In December, for example, WABC in New York switched the Jennings broadcast from 7 p.m., where it finished third against Rather and Brokaw, to 6:30 and replaced it with Jeopardy. The popular game show beats the two news programs, thus allowing WABC to charge more for commercials in that time period. World News Tonight achieves better ratings at 6:30 than it did at 7, but Jennings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Days Of Turbulence, Days of Change | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...Swaggart's celebrity in Latin America is largely the creation of television. His hour-long weekly show is broadcast by 511 Latin American stations and draws more viewers than the program of any other U.S.-based TV evangelist. Among his devotees in San Jose was Rosario Orozco, 32, who said she often wakes up feeling sad, "but then the Lord tells me to turn on Jimmy Swaggart, and suddenly everything in life is precious." Swaggart is not only an orator whose incendiary style appeals to Latin Americans but a creditable gospel singer with a lively band. His proficient road crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Offering The Hope of Heaven | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

RATHER THAN destroying a city in the old scientific style, an English major might suggest sending a Harvard professor behind enemy lines to broadcast lectures on the use of the word "the" as traced through Milton's Paradise Lost. When everyone in the enemy country falls asleep, we could then run in and wreak havok by painting every third house magenta, or possibly mauve...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: A Call to Arms | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

...trial is not even being broadcast daily on Israeli television; state network officials say the case has not generated sufficient interest in the country. And there are no long lines of Israelis eager to sit in on Demjanjuk's trial, as there were for Eichmann's trial...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Trial of Remembrance | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

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