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AIDS, the terrifying disease. Condoms, the most widely available safeguard against the spread of the sexually transmitted illness. Those combined facts have shattered the long-held taboo against advertising such prophylactics on broadcast television. While some cable systems have carried condom commercials, ABC, CBS and NBC have steadfastly refused, contending that the ads would offend some communities. No local station would broadcast them either -- until now. First San Francisco's KRON-TV, an NBC affiliate, announced it would end its ban, and plans to start airing three 15-second spots for Trojan condoms in February. "Someone had to break...
...entry in the early-morning wars had an armada of foes to overcome, even before it went on the air. Fans of the old CBS Morning News were outraged by the network's cancellation of that long-running broadcast, whose low ratings had persisted for years despite a revolving door of hosts and formats. CBS News staffers resented the fact that the fluffy newcomer would be produced by the network's entertainment division. Rivals were publicly contemptuous. Bryant Gumbel, co-host of the front-running Today, scoffed before the new show even aired, "Desperate people do desperate things...
Seated next to the First Lady for a special TV broadcast in September, Ronald Reagan initiated what he called a "national crusade" against drug abuse. Nancy Reagan, one of the most prominent crusaders in the cause, began stepping up her "Just Say No" campaign. It was the hot issue of the season: amid heavy media coverage and enthusiastic public fanfare, Congress provided overwhelming bipartisan support for tough new antidrug legislation. Eight days before the election, the President signed a bill raising federal drug-fighting funding by $1.6 billion, to $3.9 billion, proudly proclaiming that the outlay "reflects the total commitment...
Shortly after highlights of the document were broadcast on NBC Nightly News, the White House announced, "We believe that this report will underscore the fact that the President knew absolutely nothing about the diversion of funds from Iran to the contras and that no such policy was ever approved by the President." In the terminology of Watergate: no smoking gun. It was a curious vindication, proclaiming Reagan's innocence by revealing his ignorance...
Chinese officials also implicitly criticized the Voice of America, which broadcasts English- and Chinese-language programming into China. The New China News Agency singled out one VOA report that quoted "independent-minded" U.S. Journalist I.F. Stone as saying that the Chinese demonstrations were a "comfort to dissidents elsewhere." VOA officials defended their decision to broadcast the remark on the grounds that support for the protesters from Stone, a longtime sympathizer with the Peking regime, was news. For all their cautious restraint so far, China's rulers last week seemed to be casting an increasingly disapproving eye on the actions...