Word: cbs
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...telephone psychics who claimed that PrimeTime hidden-camera footage, including shots of private conversations that suggested they didn't believe in what they were doing, wrongly portrayed them as scammers. (ABC has appealed.) "There is a public disenchantment to a degree with exploitative journalism," notes Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. "And some of the backlash has spilled onto legitimate investigative reports...
...could just as well be talking about the emotional palette that he uses to bring CBS News broadcaster Edward R. Murrow to life on screen. Strathairn’s performance never strays outside of the solemn professionalism of Murrow’s broadcasts, whether or not the film’s television cameras are running...
...exception to that rule is the sleek and smoothly menacing Frank Langella, playing the founder and chairman of CBS, William Paley. It is quite wonderful to watch Langella slowly, slowly slip off his velvet gloves to reveal the mailed fists of media proprietorship. In those passages the movie achieves the melodramatic intensity--and a certain sophistication about the uses and abuses of power--that is nowhere else evident...
From TV news producers to politicians to home-security companies, few people have ever gone broke overestimating the fears of extremely unthreatened Americans. And producer Jerry Bruckheimer is not a man who is fond of going broke. He nearly singlehandedly made CBS No. 1 with his CSI franchise and its crime-story satellites. His track record in other genres is spotty--this season, the middling WB buddy-lawyer show Just Legal and NBC's Pentagon snooze E-Ring--but in cop procedurals, he has gone five for five. That tingle in your chest when you see Anthony LaPaglia race...
...there is security. Close to Home is not ashamed to milk those anxieties, right down to its title: the danger, it says, is not just in the big cities. It's right here, close to your cozy little cul-de-sac and your good public schools. Or as a CBS ad put it: "Sometimes crime comes as close as your neighbor's house." (An early version of the pilot was titled American Crime. Apparently, that was too subtle...