Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media campaigns to steer youths away from drug abuse. But they ran into trouble when the New York Times described their two-year study -- which advocated staged news events and the distribution of video press releases to be aired on TV news programs -- as "the manipulation of print and broadcast news." A TV network executive contacted by the reporter denounced the scheme, and center director Winsten found himself furiously backpedaling...
...tawdry and venal, reliance on the rock of moral principle seems almost as anachronistic as the smothering defense Princeton plays. Allegations of point shaving, reports of doctored transcripts, illegal payoffs to players and graduation rates that should shame college presidents abound. Television and the money it provides to broadcast games have corroded the soul of the sport. Each of the 64 teams to earn a bid to the NCAA tournament receives a payment of around $286,000. If a team makes it to the Final Four, the payout is a whopping $1,146,000 more. Some coaches wear $300 shoes...
...Radio consists primarily of an evening of Champlain's show, where listeners phone in to talk about topics ranging from nuclear war to pets to their fear of the garbage disposal. The show to which the audience is privy is the tense night before Champlain's show begins national broadcast. Early in the show, Champlain stresses the importance of this and every upcoming show as he pleads for intelligent caller commentary. He phrases it as a challenge: do the callers have anything worthwhile...
...management style. (Burke, head of one of the nation's leading news organizations, routinely turns down all press interviews.) He is also under pressure to reverse the ratings slide of the CBS Evening News. Yet CBS sources last week discounted reports that Burke's job was in jeopardy. CBS Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer praised Burke for dealing with "a delicate and complicated issue with thoughtfulness and strength. He has my and this company's full support...
...further their political ambitions. (In the U.S., government resources cannot be used for partisan campaigns.) Ortega used army trucks to transport people to pro-government rallies, and government workers painted campaign signs and distributed campaign literature, according to the Organization of American States (OAS). State television and radio broadcast anti-UNO propaganda regularly...