Word: nbc
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...Harvard Krokodiloes and the Yale Whiffenpoofs will appear on NBC-TV's "Today" show on November 18 as part of a segment on Harvard and Yale...
Chancellor disclosed to committee members one unsettling fact, though: let ters sent to NBC on the Government-press conflict had been running 10 to 1 in favor of the Administration. Reaction at other networks and newspapers was much the same. "The media need to listen to the public on some of these issues," observed Republican Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead of California...
...NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani ruefully recalled waiting in Barbados: "We couldn't cover the story. You can't cover a story unless you're there. All we could cover was what we were being told about the story...
Such protests won support gress. Michigan's Democratic Donald Riegle formally proposed, and the full Senate agreed by a vote of 53 to 18, that "restrictions imposed upon the press in Grenada shall cease." At a House com mittee hearing, NBC Commentator John Chancellor said that the censorship was not based on military need but "got into the area of politics...
...newscaster published a Pollyanna autobiography, Anchorwoman, that seemed like an extended press release. Says Barbara King, who helped her with the book: "She thought if she could renew the old glory, one of the networks would offer a bigger and better job." None did, but a new deal with NBC reportedly raised her salary to nearly $500,000; the network was considering her as a substitute on Today during Jane Pauley's upcoming maternity leave and as a principal reporter of the 1984 political campaigns...