Word: brokaws
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...home for news in the next century? The problem with Drudge is that a Web page is cheap, e-mail is essentially free, and no one checks your resume at the door before signing you up for a domain name. In a wired world, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw hold no monopoly over the news. Anyone with a connection to the Internet can open his or her own site, be it timely news or unverified gossip...
...BROKAW NBC anchor strings out talks, plays the CNN card and finally gets parity with Diane Sawyer...
...newsman TOM BROKAW sent the graduating class of Connecticut's Fairfield University into the marketplace with this earnest aphorism: "It's easy to make a buck but hard to make a difference." Easy for him, anyway, especially if he decides to make a difference to the Cable News Network. A few days after the ceremony, the New York Times reported that CNN had offered Brokaw, 57, a $7 million-a-year gig. That's $3 million or $4 million more than the anchor is making now, and Brokaw's NBC contract expires Aug. 30. But outlandish sums often crop...
Jones' address to the Class of 1997 will occur as part of the Commencement Week festivities, just one day before graduation. He follows Tom Brokaw and Hank Aaron, the last two Class Day orators...
...Enquirer and other tabloids to withdraw their rewards, saying "My husband and I do not want their money to be associated with our son." Even after the arrest, the family expressed displeasure with the paper. "They were very happy to get the information," says Cosby family spokesman David Brokaw, "but they had real reservations and regrets that the way it was found was through the Enquirer." Still the paper contends Markhasev's arrest is the ultimate vindication of its controversial approach to information gathering. Says Enquirer executive editor David Perel: "Money can be a very valuable and powerful tool...