Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jane Moore's attempt to shoot the President from network evening news programs, let alone countless radio reports and front-page newspaper stories, than will read about it this week in TIME and Newsweek. Yet what loomed largest in many minds was the face on the cover. Says NBC News President Richard C. Wald: "The cover hangs around on newsstands all over the country for a week, and that permanence is bound to have an influence all by itself...
...thinks press coverage has little to do with inciting potential assassins to pull the trigger. "They have much more personal, much more fantasy-like motivations than to call attention to themselves," he says. "News coverage does not mobilize a person's fantasies. The press merely reports reality." Adds NBC'S Wald: "There is no indication that Mrs. Moore was influenced by the coverage of Squeaky Fromme. Political cabalists commit assassinations for their reasons, and kooks have their reasons. The press has a responsibility to report both." Asks Minneapolis Tribune Editor Charles Bailey: "Are we in the business...
With the November 1976 deadline for Nixon's memoirs approaching, the idyllic routine has begun to change. The first 200 pages are due at the publishers at the end of this month, and Nixon has been working as much as eight hours a day. On NBC's Today show last week, Julie Nixon Eisenhower said Nixon has been working on the Watergate chapters of the book in recent weeks, and she declared that "he's going to write a very candid book." Would we, asked Hostess Barbara Walters, learn anything that we hadn't known before...
This modest disclaimer was belied by the show's publicity and the ill wishes hurled at it by Cosell haters and rival NBC and CBS offices. The detractors could count on the fact that Cosell and ABC were running a high risk. A live prime-time show is so out of the ken of the current TV generation that most people have forgotten its limitations. Timing each act to the nanosecond becomes vital; the stars' ability to ad-lib gracefully and wittily is crucial; many stars, accustomed to the adjustments of video tape, regard live performance...
...INVISIBLE MAN (NBC, Monday, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) offers similar pleasures. Kids have long thought invisibility would be a gas, and it has always been fun to see a hat floating through the frame, a voice issuing from under it, but with no figure visible beneath the Stetson. David McCallum plays the I.M. in his present incarnation, and he has an attractive wife which must inevitably create all sorts of bemused speculations among adult viewers. The befuddlement he causes miscreants is also amusing to behold. H.G. Wells himself might even enjoy the thing...