Word: channelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vote by Channel Selector...
...just business; it is show business. Top commentators are in the $200,000-a-year bracket because they draw audiences. Thus, even though Agnew calls them "unelected," TV newscasters and commentators are more elected than any other newsmen in America. Every night the viewer votes with his channel selector; the Nielsen rating company tabulates the results. Just now, CBS's Walter Cronkite is ahead of Huntley-Brinkley 26 million viewers to 21 million. Despite Agnew's presumption that silent-majority viewers would prefer an alternative to CBS-NBC dovishness, viewer-voters leave Frank Reynolds (who publicly questioned last...
...Vice President is most influential with the President in dealing with state and local governments. Specifically assigned to coordinate the three levels of government, Agnew has established excellent communications with the Governors, although many mayors are unhappy with his efforts to channel federal funds to cities through the states. Still, Nixon listens to Agnew on domestic matters; the Vice President has traveled 77,091 miles in the U.S. since January, observing at each stop...
...ranging from trade to health, is far from that. Richard Nixon incorporated some of its suggestions in a policy speech in which he called for a new partnership between the U.S. and the nations of the hemisphere (TIME, Nov. 7). In line with specific Rockefeller proposals, he pledged to channel more U.S. development funds through multilateral agencies, to "untie" aid funds that up to now had to be spent in the U.S., and to accept the existence of military governments without subjecting them to moral judgments. He also raised the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs to Under...
Massachusetts taxpayers, who are supposed to be part of the "silent majority," have subsidized an open-ended, televised discussion of the Vietnam war that is being shown repeatedly this week on Educational Station WGBH, Channel 2 in Boston...