Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dominated the 1988 presidential campaign that even network correspondents seem embarrassed. "Most of what candidates do is aimed at your television screen," began a Bruce Morton report on the CBS Evening News last week. Campaign appearances are orchestrated for the cameras (George Bush in Boston harbor; everybody in front of the Statue of Liberty), and speechwriters strive for one piquant quote a day aimed at the nightly news (Bush asserts that Michael Dukakis has been "opposed to every new weapon system since the slingshot"). And now come the commercials. The candidates have just released the first of an expected blitz...
NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 5; MASQUERADE (CBS). Somebody has to make a case for Carl Nielsen, and Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen certainly does, both in the strikingly original symphony and the dazzling excerpts from the opera...
...Republican National Committee (pushing Chairman Frank Fahrenkopf upstairs). It will be a political rehabilitation of sorts. Malek, who worked for H.R. Haldeman, was censured by the Senate Watergate Committee for using federal resources to get Nixon re-elected and for ordering the FBI to conduct an investigation of former CBS Correspondent and Nixon Critic Daniel Schorr...
...This time Ailes has been the unseen hand behind Bush's best moments: the "Pierre" put-down of former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont in a debate last October, the hard-hitting anti-Dole advertising in February's New Hampshire primary, and the on-air pummeling of CBS's Dan Rather last January...
Ailes also prepped Bush for the Showdown at Black Rock. Foreseeing that the CBS Evening News interview would be an ambush, Ailes provided Bush with a riposte to an aggressive Dan Rather: "It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?" The tactic illustrates an Ailes axiom: when attacked, hit back so hard your opponent rues the day he got nasty...