Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun vacationed in the U.S. last week, Soviet Judge Lev Almazov ruled that they had disseminated "libelous information denigrating the honor" of Soviet TV employees. Specifically, they had quoted sources doubting the authenticity of a dissident's confession broadcast on Soviet...
...some genuine blood, you should definitely park yourself in front of the tube for the three-game series between the Yanks and Bosox, broadcast live from the beautiful Bronx on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This could well mean the season, or at least a couple of broken bones--the blood between these two teams may well be bad, but it's usually pretty much in evidence...
Citizens of the quiet, sand-swept Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (pop. 103,500) were trudging to their jobs early one morning last week when a brusque military order was broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty...
...reluctant to surrender their hold on the office to another party. Beyond that, they felt that Pertini was being "imposed" on them by the ambitious Socialist leader Bettino Craxi. While negotiations to break the impasse continued behind closed doors, the electors went through 15 inconclusive ballots, with the proceedings broadcast on national television. Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite son, Party Elder Giorgio Amendola; by the end of the election he had received a total of 5,028 votes. Throwaway votes went to such unlikely candidates as the widow...
...market where top anchors earn around $200,000, a reporter earns considerably less-$30,000 is typical-and off-camera writers and producers often make even less. A survey of 900 broadcast stations by Vernon Stone of Southern Illinois University this year indicated that the average salary for a TV news director was only $18,200. Such disparities offend those who believe salaries should more closely reflect journalistic experience. "Are anchors worth these astronomical amounts?" asks Chicago Sun-Times TV Critic Frank Swertlow. "Of course not. As journalists they can't hack it. These are made-for-television journalists...