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...around this perplexity, the networks have lately adopted more unconventional approaches to Bush and his White House. Earlier this season, ABC's Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer did an hour-long interview with Bush and his popular wife Barbara on PrimeTime Live. Last week NBC's Tom Brokaw accompanied Bush through a "typical" day for a special titled A Day in the Life of the White House. The show illustrated just how vain is the hope that a President can be understood merely by being followed around...
...gives them pasts, such as "Tom Brokaw left his wife and three children to go and work on the railroad in Nebraska." He gives them family relationships, such as "Oprah Winfrey is the sister of a man who used to live on my block in Philadelphia in the 1950s." He also gives the shows a historical context, such as "when Art Carney was doing vaudeville, doughnuts were a nickel and a whole sandwich was a dime...
Based on CIA documents, NBC described Israel's cooperation with South Africa in building and testing a nuclear-tipped missile in exchange for a steady supply of enriched uranium. On October 26th, its Pentagon Correspondent Fred Francis told Tom Brokaw that "privately, senior U.S. officials are confirming that Israel does have a secret relationship with South Africa to build Doomsday weapons. The sources tell NBC News that Israel ignored Washington's discrete protest and appears to be expanding the secret relationship...
...service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head to head with the shows anchored by Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings...
Immediate gratification has become a hallmark of the age of mobile uplinks. "The new satellite technology is wonderful," says NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw, "but it's made us hostage to our expectations that information can be instantaneous." Tuesday night was a reminder that there are limits to what even television can do when electricity and telephones and highways are knocked out. By the time most networks closed down for the night after five or six hours of coverage, San Jose and Santa Cruz were still disconcertingly cut off from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland...