Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name master list of wanted men. Soldiers stood guard at banks and at the airport-to prevent rich depositors from closing out accounts over $5,000 or fleeing the country. Radio and television stations were under military control, but no mention of the quiet takeover was broadcast. Aging Emperor Haile Selassie, who was crowned the nation's absolute ruler in 1930, made no effort to oppose the military...
KPFK played the tape for other news organizations and gave copies to the FBI and local police. But the FBI, which had earlier subpoenaed the "Underground" memo, demanded the original S.L.A. tape and whatever wrappings had accompanied it. KPFK General Manager Will Lewis, 42, refused, arguing that a broadcast station has no obligation to be "an agent of law enforcement." Haled before a federal grand jury looking into the S.L.A. and other underground groups, Lewis was granted immunity from prosecution by U.S. District Judge A. Andrew Hauk and told that he must answer all questions and provide the tape...
Thus far, the outside reactions have been good. Presented at the Agassiz theater, "The Devil Touched My Tongue," Rubins's musical based on the life of Dorothy Parker, received enthusiastic reviews. "Suffragette" won Broadcast Music Incorporated's varsity show competition...
...which was replaced by a new rite in the wake of Vatican II. Best known in the U.S. is Father Gommar De Pauw, who draws worshipers from as far as 100 miles away for his Tridentine Masses each Sunday in Westbury, L.I. De Pauw's Masses are also broadcast on 20 radio stations coast-to-coast. Another small coterie of believers, who want to make the U.S. a "Christian Commonwealth" (i.e., a Catholic one), clusters around L. Brent Bozell, brother-in-law of Newspaper Columnist William F. Buckley. In his magazine Triumph (circ. 5,000) Bozell has been fighting...
...press biased? Inaccurate? Power-hungry? Poll after poll has shown the credibility problem of newspapers, magazines and broadcast journalism...