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It’s spring time in Georgia. While millions of Americans tune in to CBS this weekend to watch the Masters Tournament, one of the premier golfing events in the country, the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) will be standing outside Augusta’s gates, protesting the exclusion of women from the golf club’s membership ranks...
...have war “break-ins” by Dan Rather to update us on the safety of loved ones overseas. But it was wrong when CBS preempted games for total war coverage and it would have been wrong for the NCAA Tournament to be cancelled or the Major League Baseball season to be delayed...
...wealth of images is far preferable to the near blackout of Gulf War I. But seeing doesn't automatically equal knowing. Excitement, dust and dark often limited reporters' perspectives. "We seem to see a line of vehicles off to the left there," said CBS's John Roberts by videophone, on the move with the 1st Marine Division in southern Iraq. "Oh, sorry. It's a line of camels." Many important early operations, like special-forces missions, went on without media witnesses. And although watching Fox News's Rick Leventhal report while a Marine unit fired heavy artillery gave...
...could win in similar terms again. "He always thinks he has a chance of beating the odds," says one of Russia's longtime official Iraq watchers. His long tenure has meant decades of overcoming formidable obstacles, including his own blunders. During Saddam's February interview with Dan Rather, the CBS anchorman said he presumed it was the last time the two would meet. Saddam replied that Rather had said the same thing before the first Gulf...
...good quality. But Lucy and Desi were expecting their first child, and they didn't want to move to New York. So Desi got a group of top technical people together who figured out how to shoot the show with three film cameras in front of an audience. CBS said that would cost too much, so Desi and Lucy took a cut in salary and in return were given the rights to the negatives of the films. Thus the three-camera film system, still used for situation comedies today, was created, and the rerun was born...