Word: network
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City ratings, the NBC channel pulled a record 84% of the audience and the network projected a nationwide total of 35 million viewers...
...network shows are now broadcast in color...
When the President announces his intention to speak to the citizenry on a matter of national concern, it is the President's audience gathered in front of their TV sets. It is therefore presumption, bordering on arrogance, that network officials feel it is within their province to select certain well-known commentators who will also address the nation immediately after the President's remarks and advise the people that the President is wrong. This is not reporting the news...
...could have ended the war in about six months. By the spring of 1966, this argument goes, the Air Force had ample bases in South Viet Nam and the Navy had enough carriers in position to carry out a systematic destruction of the enemy's power plants, transportation network and military facilities in the North. But, officers complain, instead of being able to hit all those related targets at once, they had to get Washington approval for each major new target, and this "piecemeal" approach was inefficient...
...Hollowness emanating like artificial sunlight from the doll-like people-the works of Hopper stand out from among the abstract pieces with haunting truthfulness. The only lyrical references to humanity emerge from the brush strokes of De Kooning and Kline-figures of paint both suggested and dissolved by a network of strokes. But the viewer of the vast rooms of abstraction feels the constant stares of the paintings reaching beyond their frames, asking the thought of the mind to comprehend their nature. Standing before the particularly bright ones, you begin to feel as though you are the subject matter...