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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just after USA Today's arrival in Chicago, the Tribune underwent a few cosmetic changes. On the back page of its first section, inches away from the gossip column, one finds the Tribune's new color-coded weather map, not unlike USA Today's weather page. The latter includes not only three-day forecasts for each state but also the local phone numbers for the national weather service in sixteen American cities. Moreover, the Tribune's front page now includes a boxed "here's-what's-inside"-like column, with a friendly "Good Morning" at its top. Each...
...these fault-finders miss the point of USA Today entirely. Shocking as it may be, the splashy color, concise stories, full-color weather map, detailed TV listings and emphasis on entertainment news were not designed to please the Columbia Journalism Review. Those innovations are instead aimed at readers. It is that focus which makes USA Today the nation's only truly populist newspaper...
...were aimed at the press and visitors' galleries. When U.S. Ambassador Kirkpatrick rolled the tapes, delegates and visitors could hear on their headsets simultaneous translations in all six official languages at the U.N. The TV screens showed the words of the pilots in Russian and English letters, and a map with moving lines represented the routes of the Korean airliner and the Soviet interceptors...
Natty in olive-green uniform with row upon row of military decorations, Ogarkov traced the path of Flight 007 with a long metal pointer on a huge colored map before an overflow audience, which spilled out of the second-floor auditorium of the Novosti building and down the stairs to the mezzanine. As no other Soviet official had done, he admitted in so many words that Soviet fighters had shot down the Korean jet and confirmed Western reports that two air-to-air missiles had done the deed. But his explanation was confusing. He suggested that Soviet ground controllers...
After this return visit, it seems clear that when the map of Television Land is drawn, the eight-room Loud ranch house will be as much a landmark " as the Cleaver family's two-story white colonial. Just as the homogenized family sitcoms of the '50s became emblems of that "decade, the Loud family's home movies may be the veristic vision of the polarized family of the '70s. So stay tuned, video voyeurs, for the next installment of the Loud saga. Say in ten years, when the prospective grandchildren are old enough to be interviewed...