Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clarion, the reporters wait in the lobbyfor Harkin to arrive. Lars, a reporter for CBS,types notes into his laptop. He has followedHarkin around all day for three weeks, first inIowa and now here, and "has heard the stump seventhousand times." He travels with Ju-Ju, hiscounterpart at ABC, who is writing a postcard to afriend that just got engaged. Before she canfinish, she looks up, "Oh shit, he's herealready...
...cannot help but enjoy Pat O'Brien, CBS's ultimate non-specialist, and his late-night updates from the CBS set on the Olympic site. The living room idea is, of course, hardly new, but it is sort of odd to realize that CBS transported all that stuff that they use for the CBS Morning News to Albertville, France...
...problems are free to blow the whistle without fear of reprisal. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way for Charles ("Bud") Varnadore, a technician at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Varnadore, 50, suffers from colon cancer and underwent 52 weeks of chemotherapy. After he appeared on a CBS news program in March 1991 to talk about a study that showed suspiciously high rates of cancer among workers at the facility, his bosses assigned him to a new office -- a storage closet next to the chemical lab. Later they moved him to other offices crammed with mercury, radioactive materials...
...least, they can't get enough of the networks' prime-time news programs. CBS's venerable 60 Minutes, the closest thing to a perpetual-motion machine yet developed by network TV, is riding higher than ever as the most watched show on television. ABC's PrimeTime Live, after a rocky shakedown period, has emerged as a solid ratings success, while its older sibling, 20/20, is still going strong after 13 seasons. Back at CBS, 48 Hours (which departs from the newsmagazine format by focusing on one subject for an hour in cinema-verite fashion) has become a sleeper...
Friedman and Jennings still didn't like the story. They settled the next day for inserting two lines about the alleged scandal into a piece by correspondent James Wooten about the pros and cons of being the front runner. But when Clinton appeared on CBS, the ABC executives felt obliged to do the story...