Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place Barbara Walters [May 3] in the company of such reporters as Cronkite, Reasoner and Chancellor is unforgivable. For these are men who are now the only really eloquent voices in that otherwise insipid area known as "broadcast journalism." They have the touch of a poet in their prose, the sagacity of a seer in their assessments. To them, the world we live in is something more than merely a matter of headlines...
...local crowds. The biggest league-round draw is the New York Cosmos' legendary Pelé. Average attendance in the league in its first four weeks is roughly 10,000. And that should be boosted when League Commissioner Phil Woosnam signs a two-year deal with CBS to broadcast at least 15 games...
...radio for a while, but there is nothing in the rumor that I am retiring. Nothing." So saying, Lowell Thomas, 84, informed listeners that he was delivering his last regular broadcast for CBS radio. Since he launched the country's first network news show in 1930, his mellow baritone "Good evening, everybody" and sonorous "So long until tomorrow" reached a cumulative audience once estimated at more than 100 billion. When not at the mike, he found time to write more than 50 books and build a communications corporation-Capital Cities-that controls a coast-to-coast string of radio...
...Well, that's kind of a hangover of my being stubborn. I thought when the half hour began that there'd be plenty of time to do a little irony of fate piece at the end of the broadcast...then came the assassinations and the war and to hell with the irony of fate pieces. It just sort of hung...
...little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast by saying, "For further details, read your morning newspaper." Why shouldn't Cronkite mean it? For, of course, no one can hope to be well-informed from television news alone, even if many millions in this democracy...