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Belgrade, meanwhile, has opened up a bit. Television and other journalists have been allowed to report out of the Yugoslavian capital, albeit under restrictions. "This gives some sense of how the citizenry there is reacting to the war," says ABC's Murphy. CBS News is particularly pleased to have gotten its anchorman, Dan Rather, into Belgrade. "His name recognition has allowed us to get access to various officials and places," says Marcy McGinnis, CBS vice president for news coverage...
...beginning it did not look that way," says McGinnis of CBS, "because the desperate escape made it look like NATO had no plan." But the recurring images of suffering had a secondary, and thus far more significant, impact. "The footage day after day of human misery helped to galvanize public opinion," says NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, "and perhaps just as significantly it also strengthened the resolve of NATO officials" to carry on. TIME lifestyle senior editor Richard Zoglin, a longtime television observer agrees: "The only up close and personal stuff we have seen is from the refugees. And almost...
Panelists included Alvis, a WFCIA fellow; Instructor in Government Gary J. Bass '92, who is also a former reporter for The Economist; and Susan E' Reed, an Emmy Award-winning journalist for CBS and a Nieman fellow at the Kennedy School of Government...
Even more disturbing are reports that the Serbs may be mining the Albanian border and aerial photographs which show freshly turned earth resembling the mass graves dug during the Bosnian war. According to CBS, NATO reports spotting 96 freshly dug graves from the air over Kosovo last Saturday night and Sunday...
NAME'S THE SAME The Melissa computer virus made headlines last week, crippling e-mail systems around the nation. At the same time, other famous Melissas were engaged in more constructive endeavors. Actress Melissa Gilbert was shooting a CBS movie called Soul Collector, while rocker Melissa Etheridge performed at an event to raise awareness about the plight of women in Afghanistan. E! hostess Melissa Rivers, fresh from her marathon coverage of the Oscars, was at a clinic on horse jumping with her husband. No word on Melissa Manchester...