Word: nbc
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...report" detailing how nine different newspapers displayed the stories, a section describing the previous evening's news shows on the three networks, and a compilation of editorials and opinion columns culled daily from 54 newspapers. The television section indulges in its own "instant analysis"; recently it noted that NBC's Herb Kaplow, in reporting Nixon's gaffe over the Charles Manson trial, was "fair in his report, and overall it came over in a balanced fashion." Howard K. Smith "had another incisive commentary" on Kenneth O'Donnell's memoirs about John F. Kennedy...
There will be parades, fiery speeches and blunt street theater. In many cities, Freedom Trash Cans will be available to receive symbols of sexist oppression such as cosmetics, bras and detergents. NBC's Today show will focus on women's rights, and the cast will be all female. Next week's edition of the underground Los Angeles Free Press will be put out by an all-girl staff. Everywhere, women's liberation organizations are urging women at home or in the office "to confront your own unfinished business of equality...
...notebook, as opposed to the folk heroes on TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather man." He is embarrassed when little girls recognize him and ask for his autograph. Nevertheless, he does a weekly report for NET and is the most frequent guest journalist on NBC's Meet the Press, a program that displays Lisagor's most conspicuous talent: he is far and away the most skillful interrogator in the business. On TV, at press conferences, and at the now-famous breakfasts run by Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor, he breaks through...
Some experts envisage the cassette explosion as only one phase of an upheaval in education, home entertainment and communications. The performing arts might become economic for the first time. McLuhan and Paul Klein, NBC's ratings vice president and philosopher of the future (TIME, May 25), foresee a decline of textbooks and suspect that network TV will be reduced to producing little more than sports and news. Klein also maintains that cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans...
...admission that the ads were false, and cash awards for all consumers who consider themselves deceived. One of the Excedrin ads in question shows Actor David Janssen, who had played a doctor in a television series, delivering the pitch in Atlantic City, the site of many medical conventions. NBC was sufficiently skeptical of the claim to ban the Janssen commercial...