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...lack of live pictures only heightened the competition among the networks back home. CBS's Dan Rather, ABC's Peter Jennings and NBC's Roger Mudd put in 18-hour days manning not only the evening news shows but dozens of special bulletins during the week. (Tom Brokaw, NBC's regular anchor, was on vacation in Africa.) The story seemed tailor-made for Jennings, whose insightful commentary capitalized on his stint as ABC's chief Middle East correspondent from 1969 to 1975. Jennings' linguistic skills also came in handy. When a French-speaking operator attempted...
...exhaustive coverage raised broader questions about the appropriate role of journalists in such a crisis. Pentagon Spokesman Michael Burch charged that news organizations were abetting the terrorists by reporting U.S. military movements, including the deployment of the Delta Force antiterrorist unit. Burch was especially angry at NBC and ABC, which reported within hours after the hijacking that Delta Force had departed the U.S.; NBC added that it was headed for the Mediterranean. "It may have been one of the reasons for the erratic movements of the TWA hijackers (between Beirut and Algiers)," said Burch. CBS, A.P. and U.P.I. refrained from...
...increasingly sought ways to accommodate viewer feedback, they have traditionally drawn the line at turning over airtime to programs produced by outsiders. "Allowing your facility to be used for such a pointed attack from a particular ideological point of view seems to me bad journalism and bad broadcasting," says NBC Senior News Commentator John Chancellor. "It has to say to a lot of people who are watching, 'Basically, we were wrong...
Unlike The Goonies, whose narrative is a rapid succession of hotfoots, Back to the Future has a long fuse that, halfway through, explodes into comic epiphany. Until then, the film is nicely propelled by the ingratiating Fox (from the NBC sitcom Family Ties) and some snappy then-and-now jokes (in 1985 the local theater is showing Orgy American Style, while in 1955 the attraction is a Ronald Reagan western). The choice of year is canny, for 1955 is close to the historical moment when television, rock 'n' roll and kids mounted their takeover of American culture...
FOOTNOTE: *The latest count gives ABC a 5 rating, NBC 4.5 and CBS 3.2. That translates into 4.2 million sets tuned to GMA, 3.8 million to Today and 2.7 million to Morning