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...other networks complained that ABC had no right to treat legitimate news as its own property. ''Anything the President does constitutes news,'' said Lane Venardos, executive producer of special events for CBS. ''Maybe not big news, but news of one form or another.'' Wolper, who staged the glitzy closing ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics, countered that ABC owned the Medals of Liberty presentation and thus had the exclusive right to broadcast the awards. ''It's my medal, and I sold the thing to ABC,'' said Wolper...
...briefing at Bagram Air force Base on Saturday, followed by a quick helicopter trip to the eastern province of Nangahar where he met with the provincial governor. He returned to Kabul in the evening and stayed the night at the U.S. embassy. In an interview aired Sunday morning on CBS's Face the Nation, Obama called the situation in Afghanistan "precarious" and "urgent," and stressed that Washington needs to start planning now to send more troops to the country rather than leaving that to the next President. He also took the opportunity to complain that neighboring Pakistan is not doing...
...deals with major media outlets such as the New York Times, The Atlantic and 60 Minutes, among other potential partners. On June 22, its first major story - about Al Hurra, a U.S.-funded Middle Eastern TV network that has broadcast anti-American propaganda - aired in conjunction with the famed CBS news program. Such an approach has already been criticized by the Miami Herald's Edward Wasserman, who inquired July 7, "why was Pro Publica using its philanthropic funding to, essentially, subsidize the cost of a segment for 60 Minutes, the most financially successful news show in the history...
...most widely distributed cable channel. It also runs the 14th most popular site on the web, weather.com. But observers are already questioning whether NBC, which is owned by General Electric, overpaid for the property. NBC, after all, only paid $1.25 billion for the cable channel Bravo in 2002, while CBS acquired tech news site CNET for $1.8 billion last...
...well qualified to be Commander in Chief? As the Barack Obama campaign has learned, it's not easy. This week Wesley Clark, the NATO Supreme Commander under President Bill Clinton, became the latest in a series of Obama supporters to bungle the argument when he told CBS's Face the Nation, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President...