Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murdoch's New York Post is an endangered species, the fault is his own, with a little help from Senator Ted Kennedy. The ambitious Murdoch has been buying up television stations, hoping to create a fourth network to compete against CBS, NBC and ABC. He became an American citizen to qualify for ownership, but he knows that by FCC rule he cannot own a newspaper and a broadcast station in the same city, as he does in Boston and New York...
...character" and are complacently boring, which is why newspaper readership is declining. He thinks his own journalism is as new-fashioned as local television news, which in its more competitive world often emphasizes murders, fires and rapes. Murdoch, who knows all the tricks for skewering people, also admires CBS's 60 Minutes, which he once described as "sensational and unfair" in its methods, much like his own brand of journalism...
...such moment occurred last week. Like most of the others, it came upon the viewer unawares. Unlike others, it was staged, self-generated, almost ceremonial: a media event. Dan Rather was interviewing George Bush on the CBS Evening News -- live. Unusual, but not unprecedented. But what could have been just another conversation between two familiar talking heads turned into a collision with a resonance far out of proportion to the intense nine minutes of airtime. Their contretemps was not just a conflict between men but between two institutions, two symbols: the Vice President and the anchorman, the loyal emissary...
...nine minutes that shook the wimp image were not nearly as spontaneous as they seemed. For both sides the encounter had been meticulously planned. By the middle of December CBS News had already aired a series of political profiles. Richard Cohen, senior political producer of the Evening News, lobbied for a different approach to Bush, one that centered on the Iran-contra affair. Rather and other producers agreed. In early January Cohen sent a letter to the Bush campaign requesting a lengthy taped interview for a campaign profile. "Part of our early coverage of the 1988 presidential election has been...
Bush Spokesman Peter Teeley began negotiating with CBS over the ground rules. In further discussions Roger Ailes, Bush's noted media consultant, contended that the only way to assure that the Vice President got his message across was to do the interview live. Eventually the Bush campaign insisted the interview be live or not at all. Take it or leave it. Says Teeley: "There was every indication from the beginning that the interview would be highly confrontational...