Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out, Sato learned of Nixon's announcement just three minutes before it was broadcast. In part, that was due to delays in transmitting and decoding messages. Whatever the explanation, Sato was stricken. To reporters, Sato wondered how "Nixon could do a thing like this." Sato realized that Washington had been cautious for fear of a leak, but for the Japanese Premier that was scant consolation...
Scenting a sequel to the Pentagon papers, wire services, newspapers and networks gave the memos wide publicity. Associated Press and United Press International moved major stories on the Review's disclosures. The Washington Post front-paged them; Voice of America broadcast them round the world, and they received prominent play in the daily news summary prepared for President Nixon. The New York Times was more cautious, but quoted Rusk to the effect that, although he could not remember exactly, it was "entirely possible" that he had written a memo attributed to him. In Washington, officials started searching old files...
...When the coup attempt began and the rebels broadcast slogans like "Socialism has arrived-down with monarchy!" it appeared to be a standard, radical-inspired Arab upheaval. Certainly it had Libya's mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi fooled. There is no evidence to indicate that Libya had any advance knowledge of the plot. Nonetheless, Gaddafi earned Hassan's enmity by immediately offering ground, armor and air support to what he thought were his ideological brothers in Morocco. They were hardly that. Medbouh, 44, was a wealthy satrap, not a struggling junior officer as Gaddafi had been before Libya...
...fact, along with continuing dissection of the Pentagon papers, new debate was mounting over whether the press could be faulted for not pinpointing key Administration actions much earlier. It could have, argued Barry Zorthian, president of TIME-LIFE Broadcast, who was the Government's information chief in Saigon from 1964 to 1967. "Most competent journalists in Viet Nam at the time had a knowledge of at least the main points of the Pentagon papers-and in many cases much more," he wrote in the Times. "What the correspondents-and their editors-did with this information is quite another question...
Favorable Winds. Provincial radio stations are forever scolding errant Chinese for a variety of venal sins. One recent broadcast complained that "class enemies" at a commune in Kwangtung province "have whipped up a sinister capitalist wind of 'going it alone' in sideline production." Translation: some miscreants are spending too little time down on the commune and too much tending the few vegetables, pigs and chickens they are allowed to raise and sell for cash...