Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family-sensitive alternative in Miami is being offered by WCIX-TV, a CBS affiliate currently No. 4 in the ratings. A recent early-evening newscast, for instance, featured a story about the tearful homecoming of 43 local students who were on an Amtrak train that derailed in North Carolina. Yet there were no shots of the deadly accident. Says Allen Shaklan, the station's general manager: "Rubbernecking coverage -- the stuff that causes people to stop and turn in disgust -- we won't do when youngsters may be watching...
...family-sensitive approach is typically confined to early-evening newscasts, with stronger material reserved for late-night programs. At WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, however, the time lapse is only an hour: after a G-rated 5 p.m. show, the crime wave hits at 6 o'clock. The top story on a % recent 5 p.m. newscast concerned a local political candidate accused of doctoring his resume. Unmentioned was the discovery of a woman's dismembered body in a burning trash can; that was the lead story (sans graphic footage...
Embarrassing the boss is another tactic. In April, 64 members of the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union stormed the North Carolina golf course where the Greensboro Open, an event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People began its annual three-day summit in Baltimore with a call to boycott South Carolina. The group was reacting to a statement by a federal judge in the Palmetto State, who said he doubted that a suit to remove the Confederate battle flag from the statehouse had much of a chance of success. More quietly, the N.A.A.C.P. welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, to their gathering...
That, of course, is not to say that Giardi was not talented. He came in gifted--a star high school quarterback out of Salem, M.A., and a baseball recruit at the University of North Carolina--and stayed gifted...