Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...combination of fresh material and recycled pieces that have aired on CNN earlier in the day. A report on the Soviet elections, for example, began with narration by anchorman Brian Todd, who carefully defined such concepts as perestroika. But then came a report from Moscow correspondent Steve Hurst, who tossed out phrases like "party apparatchik" without further elaboration...
Tammy Weddel, of the Public Affairs Department of the National Office for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in Hurst, Texas, a lobbyist group against drunk driving, said MADD is "very pleased overall with the broadcasting industry in promoting the anti-drunk driving message." She added that "public awareness has improved overall in the last decade...
...After Hurst's report was aired, other news organizations scrambled to confirm it but came up empty. None of the three major wire services -- A.P., U.P.I. and Reuters -- reported the rumor until the worldwide reaction became a story in its own right. All three networks gave the resignation story prominent play at the beginning of their evening news-casts on Tuesday. The following day's New York Times and Washington Post downplayed the rumor by encasing it in stories on the political and financial reactions...
...Hurst still stands by his report, pointing out that his source said only that Gorbachev was "considering" resignation: "I heard it from someone I believed, a long-standing source who has been right on every other occasion." But some editors and press monitors criticized CNN for going public with unconfirmed information. "It's a fundamental of journalism: one-source stories are bad," says Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley. "Generally we will not go with a single source," says Timothy Russert, senior vice president of news at NBC. "Of course, every news organization...