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...consul funded the satellite link to the CBC, Canada's largest national television network. Because Canadian law prohibits election results from being broadcast in any region before the 9 p.m. poll closings, attendees tuned in to CBC stations in a number of Canada's six time zones throughout the night...
...Reagan or a Roosevelt, let alone the decency and humility of a Truman; his only vision involved his own power, and the other virtues were banished from his White House early on. But he was an interesting President, perfectly suited for a time when politics resembles a spectator sport, broadcast into millions of homes through the good offices of CNN. He inspired more novels and biographies, more praise and more hatred, than any leader since Nixon--perhaps since FDR, even. And while he himself may fade away, into Hollywood or Westchester, the memory of the Age of Clinton will linger...
DIED. ROBERT TROUT, 91, broadcast journalism pioneer who helped create the news anchor position; in New York City (see Eulogy, below...
...what really may have given the canvassing board pause was a sight that strikes fear in any Florida politician, especially elected Dade County judges like Lawrence King, the board's chairman: angry Cuban voters. They marched on the Clark Center after a conservative radio station, Radio Mambí, broadcast interviews with two Cuban-American GOP members of Congress, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who decried the board's moves. For Miami's Cubans, almost 80 percent of whom voted for Bush, this election is mostly about avenging Elian Gonzalez. One of Judge King's paid political consultants...
...after writing 11 books, hundreds of television scripts and radio shows and biweekly syndicated columns that have run in 150 newspapers across the nation for the past 18 years, Rooney's credentials have, in many minds, earned him the right to have become broadcast media's resident curmudgeon...