Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known others: German-born NBC Photographer Dieter Bellendorf; French Photographers Gilles Caron, Guy Hannoteaux, Claude Arpin; Michel Visot, a Phnom-Penh professor of law acting as a guide; and two Japanese television newsmen, Reporter Akira Kusaka and Cameraman Yujiro Tagaki...
...lower hiring standards for blacks, many of whom lack training simply because they never received much encouragement to go into journalism. This can lead to resentment on the part of qualified blacks, who feel that it casts suspicion on their own abilities. Says Lem Tucker, a Washington correspondent for NBC: "I can understand the initial skepticism. But after two years of doing good work, it makes me mad." Many black newsmen persist, however, and some have already demonstrated that they are among the best newsmen...
...network television news, ABC employs one black among its 45 correspondents. NBC estimates that of its 60-odd nationwide correspondents about a dozen are black. CBS does not release specific figures. Among magazines, the Reader's Digest has only one black on its masthead, Look five, LIFE five. Newsweek has ten blacks among its editors, correspondents and researchers; TIME...
...news coverage are now resolved. The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch has printed the score card. According to a White House report leaked to the paper, three presidential aides monitored supper-hour newscasts from August to December 1969 and rated each item involving the Administration as pro, con or neutral. NBC ranked lowest, because it "periodically becomes crusading and generates news" tending "to reflect unfavorably on the Administration...
...NBC: 15% pro, 44% con, 40% neutral...