Word: execs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail sent yesterday morning by McFadden to Rawlins, and forwarded to The Crimson, reads simply: "For what it's worth, all you people on exec. board can go screw...
Furthermore, I am the first Crimson Ombudsperson who is not also a Crimson executive. This year's editors decided that having a Crimson exec in charge of a column designed to offer an outsider's view of Crimson coverage was just a wee slight conflict of interest. And, indeed, I am not a Crimson executive, nor have I ever comped The Crimson. Until I took this position, I had never even been quoted in a Crimson news story...
...feel that this is a more appropriate relationship for this person to have," Braunstein added. "It should mean a lot more when Shawn makes a statement than when a Crimson exec[utive] does...
...dominant in the ratings then, but morale was falling: many of its hits (Cosby, The Golden Girls, L.A. Law) were past their prime, and Littlefield admits he didn't move fast enough to make changes. When Don Ohlmeyer, a former NBC Sports exec, was brought in to oversee the network's entertainment division in 1993, many figured Littlefield would get the ax. Yet he survived--even through the dark days when NBC was being derided for having lost Letterman, who initially drew great ratings on CBS. "The scariest thing was when Dave came on that first year," he says...
ELAINE SHANNON says persuading tobacco-industry tattler and 60 Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told...