Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, converged on Boston's John F. Kennedy Library last week. The Washington Post sent its political stars, David Broder and Haynes Johnson. The Los Angeles Times dispatched seven Washington reporters, who arrived in a limousine equipped with a bar and TV set. Scanning the press crowd, NBC's John Hart asked, "What is this, a reunion...
...Rather earns his $1.6 million-a-year pay by keeping CBS in first place in network news. Perhaps that is why NBC, ABC and Cable News Network gave such prominence to Rather's uncomfortable three days on the stand in Los Angeles, where he and CBS were being sued by a physician Linked to an insurance-fraud scheme by 60 Minutes. That slander trial ended last week in a judgment for CBS, but the experience was embarrassing nonetheless...
Kirkland will appear on tomorrow morning's edition of NBC's "Today" show, which will be broadcast from Quincy Market in downtown Boston...
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, brief as it was, would not be brief enough now for television. Oh, the cameras would be there, but they would focus first on the man from ABC-CBS-NBC describing the scene and recalling the battle. In the background Lincoln would be seen speaking but would not be heard saying, "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here." TV's formula these days is words 100 words from the reporter, and a "sound bite" of 15 or 20 words from the speaker. At long last Lincoln's turn...
...taking place every Sunday. This is the talk pace of the questioning of public figures on network talk shows, which used to be soporifically but sedately informative. The new style is faster and sharper. "Those with a little to say come through better," laments Marvin Kalb of NBC's Meet the Press. "Those with a lot to say have a harder time...