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RICHARD Nixon has appeared everywhere the past few days. The April 10 issue of The New York Times sported a full page ad, with a huge photo of the ex-President, announcing Nixon's appearance on the NBC News program Meet the Press for the first time in 20 years. Last week, Nixon spoke at the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors to give his predictions on the Presidential race. On Sunday, The New York Times Review of Books contained a review of Nixon's new book on the status of the superpowers...
Imagine the hoots of derision that would greet Shinagel if he called on The New York Times or NBC to meet with the free speech committee to discuss their conduct when covering campus events. Shinagel's attempt to muzzle or manipulate student publications is insulting...
...life and USA (hard news). Except for one "cover story" of four minutes or so, the pieces will be brief and numerous (about 35 a half-hour). This broadcast spin-off of "McPaper" -- McRather, perhaps? -- has impressive parentage: it comes from GTG Entertainment, the new company headed by ex-NBC Chairman Grant Tinker (in partnership with Gannett, USA Today's publisher), and is being produced by Steve Friedman, the respected former executive producer of NBC's Today show...
...format and main studio in Rosslyn, Va., are still under construction. But four network-credentialed anchors -- NBC's Bill Macatee and Robin Young and ABC's Edie Magnus and Kenneth Walker -- have been hired, and Friedman sounds confident that he has caught the next video wave. Says he: "This is television for the '90s." Gulp...
...Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated. It was so successful that in 1969 CBS offered him $80,000 a week for a show opposite Carson...