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...uninformative. They should just have one master shot of police and ambulances and yellow police tape because that's all they run. It's the Eyewitness News-ization of America." Again, he won't say what kind of alternative he'll offer, although a passing reference to the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour seems to offer a clue. Building a profitable network on the back of civic-minded public-affairs programming--now that's really counterintuitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DILLER DOING IT HIS WAY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Answer: because all of American free television with national scope has been seized by the likes of General Electric, Westinghouse, Disney and Rupert Murdoch. The giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE EDITORS | 2/9/1996 | See Source »

...with his little boys once and he seemed so happy. The bottom line is that John tried to kill two policemen, but he did cherish his children. That's what makes it so difficult." Reverend Robert Doherty, describing paroled killer John J. MacNeil, who was killed Friday night in a shootout with

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 9/19/1995 | See Source »

...progress of the genocide perpetrated against Muslim in Bosnia. Jennings, Rather and Brokaw have all been yelling about the killings, rapes and refugees. Current and former presidents have now gone on CNN, babbling about quagmire, to explain why the U.S. has complied with global inaction. The United Nations, MacNeil and Lehrer's favorite organization, became an accomplice to the destruction of one of its own members nations. I have had to watch all of this...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Reading Between Bosnian Lines | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

Asked on PBS' MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour Monday why he didn't speak out years ago, McNamara exclaimed: "What should I have said that would not have brought aid and comfort to the enemy? I was the secretary of defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BTW | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

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