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...executives have retreated to their bunkers, refusing to comment on another expected round of cutbacks. The question is where, after years of budget slashing, these new cuts will come. "They're going to have to go back to the drawing board and look for large, large chunks," says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who is now director of the Benton Broadcast Journalism Fellowships at the University of Chicago...
...cable network airs stories provided by its partners via satellite, and distributes the stories to other station partners for their use. Broadcasters believe local viewers who catch their news teams on cable may be more likely to tune in the station if they like what they see. Says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who directs the Benton Broadcast Fellowships at the University of Chicago: "All of these factors are pulling apart the traditional relationship between the networks and their affiliates...
...quality of network newscasts is still higher than the crime-and-accident-heavy fare on most local stations. Instead of trying to make the day's headlines interesting to viewers who may already have seen them twice, some critics suggest that the networks offer more in-depth analysis. Says Herford: "Maybe Nightline is the model for the future evening newscast. Maybe the networks should tackle the one or two most important issues every day during that half hour...
Keith barks commands, June lazes on deck, and the other two-the reasonable Britons-do what they are told. Alistair (Robin Herford), Keith's partner in business, sees everybody's side but his own, while his wife Emma (Lavinia Bertram) wonders how she can transform the toothpick that runs up his back into a spine. The only problem is that Keith, for all his bluster, does not know what he is doing, in business or on the boat, and Alistair, when he eventually takes the helm, runs them onto the mud. Salvation comes in the person...
...pool, where they spend long periods talking and touching. Bindrim, 59, describes this as a way to teach people "how to be more open toward one another and to relate in a more authentic and satisfying manner." When Davis' book appeared, a central figure in it was Simon Herford, a pudgy, sadistic California psychologist with a Ph.D., described as "singularly Santa Clausy looking," with long white hair and sideburns. In 1971 Bindrim sued Davis and Doubleday, claiming that the supposedly fictional Herford was obviously he, and that the book's unsavory portrait was libelous...