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...failing because we want to settle, and the other side wants to win." In seeking to influence events from a position of both military safety and military strength in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration seemed to have achieved the worst of both worlds. -By George Russell. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Johanna McGeary/ Washington, with other bureaus
...helped develop PBS's healthy roster of news programs, including the MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Inside Story, Frontline and the critically acclaimed 13-part documentary series Vietnam: A Television His tory. NBC News, by contrast, has been losing ground. Two weeks ago, the brilliant but un profitable Overnight left the air. Today, once the sunrise champ, now has to fight the CBS Morning News for second place, be hind ABC's Good Morning America...
...government's recruiters (Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer) make Laurel and Hardy look like MacNeil and Lehrer, and the film makes Lyndon Johnson (Donald Moffat) look like Laurel or Hardy, take your pick. There he is in the back of his limousine, slamming his first together and muttering "darned housewife" when Annie Glenn refuses to see him: later he leeringly introduces fan-dancer Sally Rand; and during a film presentation with Eisenhower, Johnson sees the face of a Russian scientist and drawls. "Get that moron off of there," with the most extended moron this side of Gomer Pyle. Moffat...
...substantially. The show has funds to last a year, with $13 million of the $22 million budget coming from A T & T grants. Says Senior Producer Phil Garvin: "We do not know if the hour show will even exist next year." ABC's Nightline, which initially borrowed the MacNeil-Lehrer Report's single-topic approach, emphasis on interviews and simple visual style, this April outpaced MacNeil and Lehrer in expanding to a multitopic hour; its ratings have dropped as much as 30%, and its focus has blurred...
...fundamental question that NewsHour must answer, for PBS stations that resisted the expansion and for audiences who liked it as it was, is why the producers gambled with a proven success. MacNeil admits to having felt personally "confined" by the old format. Says he: "The half hour had a clear role, but it was always intended as just a foot in the door." Now that the door is open the show must trace a clear path...