Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. But the perception of crime has changed; now it's the No. 1 enemy. Every night on the news it's back-to-back murder and body bags. Even the national news is perverted, because the news has become a profit-oriented enterprise since Tisch took over CBS. It's the old yellow journalism. Now that communism is dead, they need new demons. This virus has infected us all -- the demons within us and among...
...CBS TELEVISION...
...board of cable network QVC this week officially accepted the sweetened $46-a-share buyout offer from Comcast and Liberty Media that sabotaged last month's heralded merger with CBS...
Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
Stanford senior Romesh Ratnesar earned a place in intern lore by finishing one workday in the Business section at 8 a.m., having spent the previous 22 hours juggling three assignments, including fact checking a late-breaking story about the now defunct CBS-QVC deal. Ratnesar's comment on the episode typifies the enthusiasm that all the interns have injected into our working lives this summer. Says he: "You hardly notice the time...