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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At first she tried to dodge prickly questions about her reliance on astrology, her feuds with White House chief of staff Donald Regan and her troubled relations with her children. "When she'd say, 'Now Bill, you're not going to talk about this,' I'd use the editors: 'But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Celebs' Golden Mouthpiece: William Novak | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

After doing exhaustive library research on a subject, Novak typically talks to dozens of family members and friends to build up lists of questions for his interviews. No muckraker, he uses challenging or contradictory material only to try to jog his subject's memory or trigger fresh stories. "I push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Celebs' Golden Mouthpiece: William Novak | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Holtz is a master salesman. Junior defensive back Todd Lyght was recruited by Michigan, Michigan State and UCLA when he was a high school senior in Flint, Mich. But Holtz told Lyght that if he came to Notre Dame he would be part of a national-championship team. "I looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

At the same time, technology is breaking down the links that join networks to their affiliates, and is blurring the lines that distinguish big stations from small ones, and network affiliates from the country's 400 independent stations. The main culprit: satellites. By providing a relatively inexpensive electronic highway over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Yet 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV News: The Sky's the Limit | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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