Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while sound bites are taking up less airtime, punditry is taking up more. A study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs shows that television correspondents covering the 1996 campaign talk six times as much as the candidates themselves in broadcast-news stories...
Though the Provenzinos were charged with a misdemeanor, the media attention created an aura of criminal notoriety. Six satellite trucks descended on the courthouse, and portions of the trial were broadcast by CNN and COURT TV, sandwiched between segments of the Bosnia war-crimes tribunal. Within minutes of the verdict, the jury foreman was telling COURT TV that the message here was to "get involved with your kids." But the picture painted in court was not of inattentive parents; it was of frightened ones. Asked who controlled the Provenzino household, Alex's friend Andrew Nowak, 17, testified, "Alex...
...post-Vietnam adversarial spirit, caught up and produced a generation for whom, Noll says, "ideological combat has become de rigueur." The movement's energy, once generated by the fervor of Christian witness, appears now to flow more from the red-hot political engagement of such Christian Right warriors as broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further is what many experts see as a decline in the popularity of arena evangelism as other mediums usurp...
...special interest in bin Laden because of the bombing that occurred last November at an American-run National Guard training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Seven people were killed, including five Americans. Last week, Saudi television broadcast the confessions of four men arrested in the bombing, and they said they had been influenced by faxes sent from bin Laden's Advice and Reformation Committee. U.S. officials investigating the bombing believe bin Laden's involvement may have gone further, and one says he is "high on our suspect list...
...trial of the century" is intense as more than 15,000 people lined up before dawn for a lottery awarding the 48 seats available to the public. Even though there are no television or still cameras allowed in the courtroom, Japanese television stations preempted regularly- scheduled programming to broadcast all day from outside the courthouse. Reporters shuttled back and forth from the courtroom to give live reports in the trial. Much of today's session was taken up with the reading of the names of 3,789 victims. Tokyo correspondent Irene Kunii says Asahara dozed off at times during...