Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the SEC would have to regulate it. The company refused, stating that the nuns had not been registered as bona fide stockholders. Now the nuns are going to court to force Blue Diamond to register them as the shareholders of record, so that they will be able to get a stockholders' list, which they plan to use to rally inside support for their cause...
...September Washington Monthly, he argues that the Cronkites and Chancellors should stop modeling themselves on the New York Times, stop "gearing the medium to the needs and knowledge of the better informed" and should go after "the great unwashed." Barber is disturbed by those statistics showing that more people get their news from television than from newspapers and magazines but that about half of all viewers say they almost never watch the evening network news...
...years since, Arledge and Salant have come to exemplify the two poles of what network news programs want to do most: excite or inform. ABC's World News To night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down...
...Nightly News. This has put him in a two-way fight with ABC's Arledge: several times this summer ABC News topped NBC in the ratings, a trend that will take time to reverse. Salant sounds like a football coach after a bad loss: "NBC has got to get its pride back. I can't stand this 'you win some, you lose some' attitude." Salant has hired Bill Small, a top CBS executive, to shake up NBC News. "They say morale's bad, wondering what kind of changes are coming here," says Salant. "They ought...
...that the more conventional CBS and NBC coverage is all that free of theater. Why should correspondents have to place themselves outside the White House or the Capitol in the sun or the wind to speak their piece when it would be easier and cheaper to get into a cab and broadcast right from the studio? At least all three network news shows are no longer lookalikes. One of them overworks the eye in the interest of excitement. The other two spend vast sums photographing events but don't let pictures distract from the serious business of dispensing information...