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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national television networks recognized the visual possibilities of the Wounded Knee story immediately; NBC, ABC and CBS all had camera crews holed up inside the embattled village. When the Justice Department ruled that Wounded Knee was off limits to the press, all three networks were permitted to remain inside, and a pool man was allowed to bring out film footage...
...NBC staff members groaned unconvincingly about how much money it cost them to stay in Wounded Knee. "We've flown 60 Lear jets in and out of here since this thing began," one NBC cameraman complained during the third week of the takeover. "We're going broke...
...story has been managed all along," said NBC Correspondent Fred Briggs. A wire-service photographer went further: "We've definitely prolonged the thing." NBC Cameraman Houston Hall agreed, attributing the continued large-scale coverage to the public relations skills of AIM leaders. Indeed, AIM'S Russell Means, for example, cannily orchestrated events within Wounded Knee for the press's benefit. "Cameras over here," he called out one afternoon, directing photographers to where bunkers were being enlarged. Then AIM forces "arrested" four men attempting to enter their compound. Released a few minutes later, the men were paraded...
Last fall, in ABC's award-winning TV movie That Certain Summer, a divorced father was forced to explain his homosexuality to his shocked son. In the same week, NBC's The Bold Ones dealt explicitly with a young girl who was torn between her old boy friend and her new-found lesbian lover. ABC's Lawyer Owen Marshall put a girl on the witness stand in order to clear her of a charge of lesbianism. "It may just be for rating purposes," says Welby Producer David O'Connell, "but many producers feel homosexuality...
...watched by an average of 3 million viewers (v. 7.5 million for Carson and 6.1 million for the CBS movie). According to the most recent Nielsens, Wide World's week of comedy was watched by 5.9 million people and CBS's late movie by 6.6 million. NBC's Tonight Show was down to only 6.7 million viewers. The other three parts of Wide World have not fared so well. Their audience has ranged from 4.5 million for Paar to 5 million for the week of mystery shows to 4.1 million for Cavett. But all-including Cavett-have...