Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house and gently clicked off the safeties on their semiautomatic weapons. Curious neighbors wandered over, largely unimpeded, to see what was happening. Knots of people stood in their backyards, waiting for some Friday-night entertainment. Minutes later, a Los Angeles police sergeant flipped on his bullhorn and broadcast: "Come out with your hands up! The house is surrounded...
...papers and stations are competing for dollars. The trustbusters say that their plan would encourage more independent news coverage; they also believe it could eliminate a "subtle pressure on editors and reporters" in single-ownership situations "that may be nothing more sinister than an awareness by ambitious press and broadcast journalists that the road to promotion does not lie with antagonizing the publisher or owner...
...contest license renewals of TV stations that are owned by companies that also have papers in Des Moines, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Topeka, and it plans to challenge renewals in other markets as well. Joint owners are digging in on the argument that the Justice proposal would, as Broadcast magazine put it, "add few new public voices at the exorbitant price of wholesale dislocation in media operations." How the FCC will respond, after having dodged the issue for six years, remains to be seen...
Established and partially supported by the Twentieth Century Fund, a smallish New York-based foundation, the council has spent much of its first nine months dealing with trivialities. It is not a record that pleases its members, an eclectic group drawn from print and broadcast journalism as well as the law, civil rights and other fields.* Executive Director William Arthur, a former editor of Look, blames the council's slow beginnings on public ignorance of its existence and on the naiveté of early complaints. "Too many of them had to do with editorial opinion rather than accuracy...
...equal control over his or her own life, people in RTH who want to move would financially have no problem moving and those of us who want to stay would have no problem staying. But meanwhile we have to fight for survival. If you listened to the WHRB broadcast you could hear that while the police were breaking down the doors of University Hall the students on the inside were chanting "Smash ROTC! No Expansion!" More and more of the rest of Mission Hill means it now too, Harvard: No Expansion. As Woody Guthrie sang, "It isn't the outlaws...