Word: hyping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Reagan would be seen in the most favorable light where it counted most, on nightly television. In a forthcoming book, Behind the Front Page, David S. Broder of the Washington Post describes how CBS Correspondent Lesley Stahl once put together a tough, critical piece illustrating White House hype, full of flags, balloons and children. She expected to be chided for it; instead, a White House aide said he loved it and asked, "Haven't you figured it out yet? The public doesn't pay any attention to what you say. They just look at the pictures." Stahl reviewed...
...slightly smaller scale, granted, and the national attention devoted to this weekend's Boston Garden action is a little less intense than the hype before the Super Bowl. But the psyche jobs the players and coaches parade before the media is no less serious...
...according to McConnell, those press releases were nothing but hype. For instance, only two of NASA's four shuttles were flight-worthy at any one time. A severe parts shortage, which NASA concealed, made it necessary for each shuttle to share parts with the others. One NASA official testified before the Rogers Commission that the agency "would have been brought to its knees" by the spare parts shortage had there been no Challenger disaster...
There is great political drama just over the hill, and you can feel it coming along Washington's broad avenues. It is planned and predictable, the kind the television networks love because they can position their cameras and correspondents for programmed hype...
Others were concerned that the commercial hype associated with Presidents' Weekend season might overshadow the patriotic significance of the holiday...