Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...news coverage is just about the most profitable thing a station can do, in part because production costs typically are less than half those of entertainment shows. And since news stories can be used repeatedly on broadcasts throughout the day, stations can sell more advertising time a minute of material, further increasing their profit margins. Moreover, many advertisers will pay premium rates to run their commercials during news shows because such programs generally attract consumers with higher average incomes...
Other analysts are less pessimistic. After all, the 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...
...Threepenny Opera originated as a leftist diatribe, and is even more of one in John Dexter's snarly, airless staging. Michael Feingold's translation claims to reflect more authentically the 1928 Berlin debut than the Marc Blitzstein version popularized in the '50s. It is surely less effective. For example, it freights the naive scrubwoman anger of Pirate Jenny with sophisticated detail that is out of character, and enervatingly transforms the last syllable of the second-act finale from a strident long vowel to a swallowed short one. Jocelyn Herbert's cumbersome set obstructs movement, draining energy. But emotion intensifies after...
...mercy of the Japanese," editorialized the Los Angeles Times. The Sacramento Bee, equally indignant, warned of a planned Japanese "invasion of industrial fields." And in a spirited appearance before a congressional committee, the Bee's publisher argued for "protective measures." The Japanese, he fumed, were after nothing less than "control of the country . . . through economic competition...
...less than subliminal message is that Japan Inc. is buying up America, a point underscored by the ubiquity of headlines portraying Japan -- as distinguished from Japanese individuals or companies -- snapping up American treasures. Similar coverage greeted OPEC in the 1970s, when Arab oil sheiks seemed ready to slap down their petrodollars and pick up America piece by piece. Yet even the most alarmist press scenarios of that era did not envision oil merchants daring to seize the home of the nation's Christmas tree...