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...like the local TV news broadcast, the movie, on a certain level, is nevertheless entertaining...
...then the sixties and the early seventies happened, and the sincere, albeit corny, emotion that rock songs used to express nearly disappeared. One crop of rockers-cum-poets--The Doors, for example--began ruminating musically about life and death, while the Bob Dylans of the world broadcast political messages. Meanwhile, the peppy, soulful melodies of early rock turned minor-key introspective...
...case in point: To his enormous credit, Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel has acknowledged publicly that, prior to the broadcast's first visit to South Africa in 1985, African-American employees had lobbied ABC News executives for years to do just that. It may seem strange that it would take five years to convince a major news network that South Africa was a good story in the early 1980's, but that's exactly what happened...
Following Nightline's visit, the broadcast went on to become the most honored series of news reports in the history of broadcast journalism. Now, when the company's African American journalists are recalled from that period, they are not credited with having come up with one helluva great idea--perhaps the best news programming any employee has produced until that time. Rather, they are mostly recalled for having been a pain in the butt all those years...
...hearing was to be held in a State House auditorium, broadcast on cable television and attended by members of the national press corps...