Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employer may have something to learn about baseball, but he is already an expert on winning. After inheriting his father's outdoor billboard agency when he was 24, Turner built it into a million-dollar communications business, with TV stations in Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C. that mainly broadcast syndicated shows, sports events and movies. He also races sailboats well enough to have been named Yachtsman of the Year in 1970 and 1973, and to have skippered Mariner in the 1974 America's Cup trials. "I'd rather sink than lose" is his shipboard motto, and crews...
...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said about Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. Last week the prince's pithy prediction came true. In a radio broadcast, Vice Premier Khieu Samphan, the iron-fisted guerrilla who has ruled the country since the Communist takeover a year ago, announced that Sihanouk had resigned as chief of state, even though he had been reconfirmed in that post by the National Assembly on March 20. Samphan said that the prince, heir to a long line of Khmer royalty...
Whether or not the resignation was voluntary-and there were widespread doubts that it was-Sihanouk seemed to accept his fate. Shortly after Samphan's broadcast, the prince declared: "I request the representatives of the people to allow me to retire, while remaining to the end of my life an ardent supporter of the Khmer revolution, the democratic people and the government." There were subsequent but unverified reports that Sihanouk had left the country for China...
...Weekend Update," Chase's mock news broadcast is the show's most popular skit. "It's the last thing we do," Franken said. "We throw it together around two in the afternoon on Saturday and add jokes throughout the day, right up to air time." Much of "Update" is direct satire of occurences of the previous week. On one newscast, Chase reported...
...skeptical," he adds dryly, "than when I started out." In fact, it was his well-developed skepticism that prompted Griffith to write his 1974 book How True (subtitle: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News). Its object: to provide readers with an inside view of print and broadcast journalism in order to help them evaluate the news. "It is absolutely necessary to be a skeptical reader," argues Griffith. "The more that boundaries are blurred between straight reporting, editorials and impressionistic reporting, the more the reader needs to judge for himself the reliability of what he is reading...