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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world, stocked with more than 20,000 wandering undergrads, harbors mysterious schools known only as SPC, SMG, CLA, etc., and--of course--the ever-popular CBS--College of Basic Studies, affectionately called NBC (No Brains College). Mixed liberally through this diverse student body is the ever-present JAP contingent--bringing Boston the most luxurious designer fashions that Westchester and Long Island mommies and daddies can afford...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Dog Day Afternoon: Hardly a Laughing Matter for Crimson | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down." Salant concedes that ABC is "a good news organization now," though he still ridicules those three scattered anchormen: "Having somebody in London, 3,000 miles less far from a story, is hardly having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...NBC job, Salant labors to improve that troubled network's Chancellor-Brinkley Nightly News. This has put him in a two-way fight with ABC's Arledge: several times this summer ABC News topped NBC in the ratings, a trend that will take time to reverse. Salant sounds like a football coach after a bad loss: "NBC has got to get its pride back. I can't stand this 'you win some, you lose some' attitude." Salant has hired Bill Small, a top CBS executive, to shake up NBC News. "They say morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...front of the pictures, and a computer called the Quantel-a marvelous machine that Roone Arledge first used for some of his tricky sports effects-sucking in, widening out or moving around pictures on the screen. "Zapping the cornea," ABC's style has been called. (CBS and NBC have the gadgets too, but don't let them take over.) ABC's impressive technological wizardry, alas, is not matched by a comparable effort to assess the content of the day's news or reflect upon it, though World News Tonight is a lively illustrated headline service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...that the more conventional CBS and NBC coverage is all that free of theater. Why should correspondents have to place themselves outside the White House or the Capitol in the sun or the wind to speak their piece when it would be easier and cheaper to get into a cab and broadcast right from the studio? At least all three network news shows are no longer lookalikes. One of them overworks the eye in the interest of excitement. The other two spend vast sums photographing events but don't let pictures distract from the serious business of dispensing information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Telling the News vs. Zapping the Cornea | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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