Word: formatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...format is too new to have generated any definitive ratings data. But proponents say it comes in response to surveys showing that viewers are fed up with local TV's obsession with lurid crimes. Especially in such cities as New York, Los Angeles and Miami, even routine murders and rapes are given the TV equivalent of screaming headlines almost every day of the week. "The coverage of crime has become totally disproportionate to what's really happening in society," says Joseph Angotti, a former senior vice president of NBC News and now a professor of communications at the University...
...response to the administration's concerns, the Harbus publisher and editor proposed sending a "value-added" format of the paper which would include a retrospective of the past year and introductions to Cambridge and Boston for incoming students...
...publisher Tarek Khlat wrote in an editorial that appeared in the Harbus, the administration rejected even the value-added format in order to avoid "clutter" in the mailing...
...When we made a proposal for a value-added format, the reason changed to one of clutter," Khlat wrote. "If the Harbus were included, the reasoning went, other clubs would also have to be included...
...fall of 1969, the University expanded the format of the weekly Gazette to include Harvard-sanctioned press releases. Before Old Mole, the Gazette had been nothing more than a calendar of University and community events...