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...Abusing the News Your article "Arabian Knights" told of plans by al-Jazeera, the Arabic broadcast network, to create an English-language sister channel based in Qatar [May 30]. I'll grant that al-Jazeera has crossed the boundaries of ethical journalism by showing some of the most gruesome acts of terrorism. Unlike cnn or Fox News, however, al-Jazeera attempts to report both sides of any story on world affairs. The analysis presented by cnn and Fox News is shallow and biased. For example, these networks tell more about how Hamas' terror attacks affect Israelis and less about...
...recital was televised the same day across Europe and the U.S. and was recorded for possible later broadcast by Soviet television as well. But TV could only begin to suggest what the 1,800 foreign diplomats, Soviet film stars, composers, musicians and ordinary Russians witnessed on an extraordinary afternoon. At 4 p.m. Horowitz emerged from the wings to thunderous applause, cut it short with an impatient gesture, sat down at his personal 9-ft. Steinway, which had been flown in for the occasion, and for two hours held everyone spellbound...
...journalists wondered whether NASA had been under too much pressure from the White House to launch the craft. David Ignatius of the Washington Post decided to look instead at whether the press caused some of the pressure. He picked as his most egregious example this lead-in by Rather, broadcast the night before the blowup: "Yet another costly, red-faces-all-around space shuttle-launch delay. This time a bad bolt on a hatch and a bad-weather bolt from the blue are being blamed. What's more, a rescheduled launch for tomorrow doesn't look good either. Bruce Hall...
...says Dennis Swanson, the new president of ABC Sports. One casualty could be Monday Night Football, a once lucrative ABC mainstay, which lost $25 million this past season. (Two of the show's high-priced analysts, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson, have already been dropped from the broadcast, though Simpson may remain with ABC as a commentator on college games...
...dominant cable-TV companies (one of them, American Television and Communications, is 80% owned by Time Inc.) to assemble an audience of 15 million households for its Cable Value Network. Last month a powerful trio of companies formed a joint venture to put a program called ValueTelevision directly on broadcast airwaves. The participants: a chain of independent stations (Fox Television), a Hollywood production company (Lorimar-Telepictures) and a direct-mail giant (Horn & Hardart, owner of Hanover House). To meet the new challenges, HSN is in the process of branching out from cable to broadcasting by acquiring 14 UHF television stations...