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...there were a bar in Boston called Cheers, and if it were anything like the one in NBC's new sitcom of the same name, it would be just the sort of hangout where Democratic Congressman Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr., 70, might down a brew at the end of a rough day. After hearing that he thought so too, the producers invited O'Neill to tape a cameo appearance. For his TV acting debut, if one doesn't count the House's televised debates, O'Neill is hunched over the bar when...
...occasion NBC has also been harshly judgmental. Its portrait of the President at mid-term included an appraisal of Reaganomics by Correspondent Mike Jensen, who came close to calling Reagan's stewardship a failure. Jensen summed up: "It soon became apparent that something was wrong. Business got steadily worse. Factories closed. Layoffs. Bankruptcies. All we can really count on is that President Reagan will be guided by an optimism that not everyone shares...
...Christmas night, CBS aired a symposium among reporters and business executives exploring why each side mistrusts the other, and asking whether the network overemphasizes negative news. NBC, since 1980, has aired three shows on the abstruse topic of competition between the U.S. and Japan for productivity and export trade...
...addition to Commentator Alan Abelson, who is editor of the business publication Barron's Weekly, NBC has Reporters Jensen, a New York Times alumnus, and Irving R. Levine, a longtime correspondent in Moscow and Rome who pioneered the beat starting in 1971. Levine is sometimes regarded by critics as behind the times, perhaps because he rarely uses flashy graphics. He urges an administrative change, already undertaken at rival ABC, that would, he says, greatly improve coverage: designation of a pool of specialized producers (ABC has five) to work on economics. Says Levine: "Not having to initiate a new person...
Threlkeld, Rabel, Goldberg and Douglass, interestingly, are not regularly assigned to economics stories. But increasingly the networks are scheduling more coverage of commerce and finance than even the expanded specialty staffs can handle. Sums up NBC's Frank: "Economics is creeping into everything. All of our reporters need to acquire economic literacy...