Word: conusions
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...swapping coverage with other broadcasters, or making deals to get their stories on cable stations. WWL, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, has its own all-news cable channel. Half a dozen video news services offer prepackaged stories to fill out local newscasts. One of the largest services is Conus, a news cooperative with 100 U.S. member stations. Other leading entries include Group W Newsfeed, a division of Westinghouse, and Visnews, an international video news wire. Recognizing the potential of these nonnetwork sources, NBC last year bought 38% of Visnews...
...muscled competitor to the Big Three. Meanwhile, the convention floor was teeming with local-station crews searching for the hometown angle and conveying a bit of the bustle to the folks back in Sioux Falls or Sacramento. Many of them did so with the help of independent services like Conus Communications and Potomac Communications, which provided work space, technical facilities and satellite time at a typical cost of between $4,000 and $8,000 for the week. "Seldom," said CBS Anchorman Dan Rather, "have so many with so much covered so little...
...Christopher Pyle, formerly a captain in Army intelligence himself and presently a graduate student at Columbia. Writing in the Washington Monthly (January and July, 1970), Pyle documents the collection, computerization, storage, and analysis of purely domestic intelligence by the U. S. Army Intelligence Command under the official designation of "CONUS," the Army's acronym for Continental U. S. Begun in 1965, and greatly expanded after the summer riots of 1967, the CONUS operation maintains files on millions of Americans who may have been involved, however remotely or passively, in domestic political activity, however lawful. The operation functions under no specific...
...reading habits of Americans was part of Treasury policy; the agents were purportedly conducting a specific investigation. This is another example of the "plausible denials" by which, according to Pyle, the Army placated irate senators and congressmen such as Sen. Samuel Ervin and Rep. Cornelius Gallagher concerning its CONUS operation. Once such investigatory operations are underway it is not likely that they will be limited unless outside pressure is exerted...
CHARLES L. CONUS...
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