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...shut-eye a night to function effectively. By that standard, millions of Americans are chronically sleep deprived, trying to get by on six hours or even less. In many households, cheating on sleep has become an unconscious and pernicious habit. "In its mild form, it's watching Ted Koppel and going to bed late and then getting up early to get to the gym," says Cornell's Pollak. In extreme cases people stay up most of the night, seeing how little sleep will keep them going. They try to compensate by snoozing late on weekends, but that makes...
...irony is that while news programming is proliferating, news gathering is drying up. The networks have become adept at devising new and fancier ways of packaging the news, finding the human-interest angle and the life-style feature, gathering experts for Ted Koppel or Lesley Stahl to interview at night. What they are doing less and less of, however, is day-to-day coverage...
...Vice President has begun his 1992 don't-dump-me-from-the-ticket campaign. He stumbled through an interview with Ted Koppel and tried to sell conservatives on the budget deal, yet 69% of voters surveyed by NBC this month said they would be uncomfortable with...
...timing of his resignation led some to speculate that the network chiefs were unhappy about Rather & Co.'s $1 million-a-week road show in the Persian Gulf. Despite some scoops (including the first videotaped interview with U.S. hostages in Baghdad), Rather was upstaged by ABC's Ted Koppel, who beat him into Iraq. Nor has Rather's globe- trotting improved the ratings: the CBS Evening News has been No. 3 for the past three weeks. Broadcast-group president Howard Stringer insisted that the costly Iraq coverage was not a factor in Burke's ouster. "I have...
What's disappointing is the response of the non-coporate world. Electronic mind-candy moderators like Ted Koppel started reporting PGA's "dark secret" of playing golf games in all-white clubs. They interviewed self-appointed spokespeople for Blacks who acted as if there were scores of Black golf players waiting to pay for membership to these clubs...