Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think barbs would sting less when they come from the velvet tonsils of a network news anchor. Apparently not, at least not when they're delivered about a fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding...
...peasants' cries have reached the castle, though it's questionable whether they've been heard. On a National Public Radio call-in program, a ticked-off citizen of Castine, Maine, (whose downtown P.O. was spared last year after cbs's This Morning took up its cause) chewed out Postmaster General Marvin Runyon: "Doesn't the Postal Service have some kind of obligation not to rip small communities apart?" Runyon, a former auto-company executive, responded with executive generalities concerning aging buildings and population growth, then effectively reversed himself. "It is not our business to be closing down small post offices...
...weeks earlier, the drunk-driving arraignment of Olympic skating champion Oksana Baiul made the CBS Radio Network news...
These disparate stories all involve matters that mainstream broadcast journalism would once have shunned. Those of us who remember a different tenor to broadcast news aren't indulging in hazy nostalgia or false memory. It really was different: hour-long documentaries (CBS Reports, NBC Reports, ABC News Closeup) were commonplace in the 1960s and '70s, touching on everything from civil rights to foreign policy. As for the stuff of tabloid journalism, broadcast news was much more like the New York Times than the New York Daily News. (When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe broke up in 1954, the Daily News...
Named after 1950s supermodel Suzy Parker, Posey grew up in Laurel, Mississippi; her dad owns a Chevrolet-Nissan dealership there. While in the theater program at the State University of New York College at Purchase, she won a regular role on the CBS soap As the World Turns...