Word: channelized
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...combination of vigilance and numbness was illustrated by a local TV channel's decision to run a split screen after a suicide bombing: on one side were body parts and ambulances, on the other a soccer match. That way, no viewer missed any of the action on either front...
...almost hysterical uproar blew up over the BBC's coverage of the royal death. The trigger was BBC newscaster Peter Sissons, who did not switch his maroon tie to the traditional black tie of mourning as did presenters on the independent channels in those first hours of the royal death coverage. There were other charges, led by the right-wing Daily Mail, of insensitive BBC interviewing and claims that Prince Charles had been angry enough to give the rival ITV channel an interview about his grandmother rather than the BBC. It turned out, however, that the interview had been allotted...
...private mourning. By Friday, however, the BBC furor was almost forgotten, eclipsed by the ceremonial spectacle of the 29-minute procession that escorted the coffin to its lying-in-state at Westminster Hall, a part of the Houses of Parliament. As black-tied, black-suited TV presenters on every channel pointed out, it was a splendid event, the biggest display of pageantry since Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. Draped in the Queen Mother's standard, topped by her diamond-encrusted crown and a single wreath of white roses and freesias from her daughter bearing the simple message, "In loving...
...Reilly was forced to field tough audience questions about himself, “The O’Reilly Factor”—his Fox News Channel television program—and his reporting style...
Perhaps the principle explanation for our early entertainment was a cadre of Oscar-caliber supporting actors. Between sporadic appareances by the new principal owner of the BoSox John Henry (it was either him or an automatronic robot made to look just like him), a photo-op with Channel 4 sports reporter and local legend Bob Lobel, and musical accompaniment by the Hot Tamale Band, we somehow made it to our seats in time for the 1 p.m. start...