Word: nbc
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READING Strictly Speaking is like getting back a thoroughly researched term paper from a grader who has made extensive, witty comments about your grammatical errors while ignoring your more substantive points. Edwin Newman, a veteran of the NBC news staff, certainly has a wonderful sense of the use--I should say misuse--of language. No one--politician, journalist, president, businessman, baseball coach, restaurateur, taxi driver--emerges unscathed from a seemingly endless catalogue of embarrassing, boorish, pretentious, dangerous and innocuous lapses and errors Newman records from his over 20 years experience in reporting. There is the actress who told...
...tension was understandable. The network has invested 18 months of planning and $8 million in AM America, its first attempt to compete in TV's early morning reveille race against NBC's 23-year-old winner, Today, and the trailing but steady CBS Morning News. Unfortunately, AM America stumbled out of the starting gate and only slowly recovered after that...
...story that does not lend itself to exciting video. The standard half-hour evening news show allows time for little more than undigested statistics delivered machine-gun style and stock scenes of unemployment lines and supermarket aisles. Lately the networks have begun to do more specials on the recession. NBC broadcast an hour-long review on New Year's Day; to moderate a discussion between two economists, NBC borrowed Public Broadcasting's Rukeyser rather than relying on its own Irving R. Levine, a former foreign correspondent whose economic reporting has been drab and unperceptive. All three commercial networks...
...Everyone knew there would be a standoff if we met under formal conditions," says Strasberg, so the meeting was arranged socially. Coppola and Strasberg talked about Toscanini; Coppola's father had played flute with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Soon afterward, Paramount placed the official call. Strasberg told the studio to make him an offer, which he promptly refused. "Ten thousand dollars-that was silly," he sniffs...
...devoted "hundreds of hours" of air time to reports on what the American press was saying about the Solzhenitsyn story. He vetoed broadcasts of excerpts or summaries of The Gulag Archipelago because that amounted to "advocacy journalism." Said Keogh: "The Voice of America is not an international NBC or CBS. Detente has changed what we do in USIA. Our program managers must be sensitive to U.S. policy as enunciated by the President and the Secretary of State. That policy is that we do not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries. We're not in the business...