Word: hearstly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is a lesson to this massive embarrassment, it is that, the smug rationalism and First Amendment piety of the press not withstanding. American journalism is probably no more objective than it was in the days when Randolph Hearst could drum himself up a war south of the border. The technology of telecommunications has not only reduced exponentially the time needed for the transmission of information--it has increased the potential for propagating untruths indefinitely. The hooey of the old bought-off newspaperman is nothing to the lies of a rating-hungry television show...
DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...
...simply have been the first casualty of an underlying industry-wide problem: total advertising revenue for all of cable last year was $100 million, an anemic .16% of total U.S. advertising. None of CBS's rivals is making money, either. ARTS, the joint venture of ABC and the Hearst Corp., has lagged as much as CBS in selling ads despite 7.5 million subscribers. It says only its modest production budget has kept losses "within handleable limits." BRAVO, which offers a mixed fare including cultural shows and foreign films, charges subscribers a fee rather than relying on advertising...
...Minneapolis Star were folded into morning editions published by the same companies; the Des Moines Tribune is scheduled for the same fate. Competing morning and evening news staffs have been merged by owners in Dayton, Duluth, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale. Fold-or-sell rumors persist for the Hearst-owned Boston Herald American...
...Another Hearst paper, however, won a new lease on editorial survival last week. Attorney General William French Smith approved a joint operating agreement that will combine the money-losing business operations of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with those of its profitable rival, the Seattle Times. Challengers to the plan, including suburban papers and disgruntled P-I employees, pledged a court battle, but similar agreements are lawfully in effect in some 23 U.S. cities. Should the Seattle proposal hold up, it will preserve one more community as at least a one-and-a-half newspaper town...