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Young people--all but the dweebiest of news dweebs--can't stand to sit through the MacNeil Lehrer News Hour when they can watch flashy, clippy MTV news. And USA Today, with its hip graphics and "concise" stories, appeals to lazy readers. Thumbing through inky pages for a news story's continuation requires too much energy...
...News anchor Tom Brokaw on PBS next summer, your TV isn't broken. NBC and the Public Broadcasting Service last week announced an unprecedented partnership for the 1992 presidential conventions. The rivals will jointly produce programming for PBS. Brokaw will appear on PBS with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and solo on NBC. The deal provides NBC with a graceful way of covering the conventions without sacrificing lucrative entertainment shows, since its own coverage won't begin until 9:30 p.m. With viewership dwindling, the conventions have become an expensive duty for the networks. Still, they are loath to offend...
...MacNeil/Lehrer were white and 87% were male, while the corresponding numbers for Koppel's show were 89% white and 82% male. Chris Ramsey, director of program marketing for MacNeil/Lehrer, defends the program by noting that it cross-examines the people in power, and that it's neither Robert MacNeil's nor Jim Lehrer's fault that by and large the people in power happen to be white males. Replies Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!: "Not all opinions are represented in government circles. I don't think that the spectrum of opinion in America runs from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...When Braucher Visiting Professor of Law Ian R. Macneil is accused of conveying "sexism" in the classroom by a March letter from the Women's Law Association, his acerbic response circulates throughout the Law School's faculty and students...
...tamed a wild land. He can still be a hero there if his people choose. But Wright became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "In power and prestige, the Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill thought and acted...