Word: broadcasts
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...little of the program was carried by the commercial networks, which broadcast only the final hour of the opening night program. In the midst of prime-time, NBC was broadcasting "Gramps" with Andy Griffith, CBS telecast "Murphy Brown" and ABC put on a television movie
...clad soldiers marched in formation into the Main Press Center, while men in FBI jackets poked about the crash site. "I figured this would be something I could tell my grandchildren about," said Robert Gee, a graduate student at Arizona State University whose amateur video of the explosion was broadcast on CNN. "Unfortunately, it turned out to be something I could tell my grandchildren about...
This upsurge in schmaltz is the result of much study. Men, the broadcast industry believes, will watch anything with a bouncing ball or bodies colliding and grunting. But women, the ones who actually go to the store to buy the beer, the pretzels and the kids' Reeboks, require something a little more human and uplifting. So NBC spent millions getting the heart-wrenching stories behind the stories, about 140 of them, on everyone from diver Mary Ellen Clark, whose cancer-stricken father made it to poolside, to the horse Nirvana II, which was an embarrassment to its Thoroughbred family--which...
...gauzy filler also helps obscure the fact that much of the NBC coverage is "plausibly live"--a phrase that rivals "preowned car" and "peacekeeping missiles" for disingenuousness. Many of the most popular activities, like gymnastics and swimming, take place during the day but are broadcast in the evening. To keep up the suspense artificially, NBC doesn't let on whether a segment is live or Memorex--and Tom Brokaw warns viewers to turn down the volume of the Nightly News lest they inadvertently hear the day's results...
...budget can be balanced by 2002 without cutting Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security. The Dole campaign called the plan credible in every dimension, saying the cut would be paid for by increased efficiency in government and lower administrative spending in non-defense programs, and by auctioning off publicly owned broadcast bandwidths to the highest bidder. The White House was on the warpath before the plan was even released, calling the plan "a collection of gimmicks, double counting and voodoo growth assumptions," which would blow a huge hole in the deficit. "Dole is looking for a bold strike which combines...