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...Near week's end, [President] Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: 'She might well have been an assassin.'" --Nov. 22, 1963, date of issue on sale the week Kennedy was shot in Dallas...
...young adults in their 20s and 30s -- just the age group most prized by advertisers. But news directors defend their bloodless broadcasts on journalistic grounds as well. WCCO has replaced shots of dead bodies with reports that try to "put crime in context," says news director John Lansing. "The 'flashbulb effect' causes people to become disengaged and fearful of their community, of whole neighborhoods and groups of people because of the lack of context." Says Ed Bewley, chairman of Audience Research & Development, a Dallas-based consulting firm that promotes the family-sensitive approach: "As a news organization, where...
Imagine, then, the sensation for three teenage archers -- half of the third Olympic team ever sent from the Land of the Thunder Dragon -- as they stepped out of their landlocked Himalayan kingdom and into the flashbulb glare of Barcelona's Olympics. Anxiously consulting an astrologer before they left, Bhutan's Olympians -- all archers -- had never boarded a plane before, or experienced summer heat. The Olympic Village was almost the size of their capital, Thimbu. And the biggest shock of all, said Namgyal Lhamu, was "the sea," which she, like the others, had only read about at home. "I thought Barcelona...
...face lights up like a flashbulb when the sport is mentioned...
...Beatnik poet and photographer Allen Ginsberg told an audience at the Sackler Lecture Hall last night "we are continually exposed to the flashbulb of death," cameras flashed away and a roar of laughter rose from the crowd of nearly 200 people...