Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue leaped to the fore two weeks ago, when a Michigan housewife, Terry Rakolta, became an instant celebrity for her successful letter-writing campaign against the bawdy Fox network sitcom Married . . . With Children. Responding to her complaints, several major advertisers, including Kimberly- Clark and Procter & Gamble, said they would no longer run ads on the show because of its "offensive" content. The sitcom -- Fox's highest-rated show -- is in no mortal danger: ad time is sold out for the season, Fox officials say, and only one company, Tambrands, actually canceled a scheduled commercial because of Rakolta's complaints...
...with questionable material. With the proliferation of so-called trash TV, the number of troublesome programs has multiplied. Among them are such tabloid shows as A Current Affair, Inside Edition and The Reporters; sensational talk programs like The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Geraldo; and occasional over-the-edge network offerings like Geraldo Rivera's NBC special last fall on Satanism...
...done is make everybody take a sharper look at standards," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising. NBC, under attack for its low-road programming, is re-creating the position of vice president of program standards and policy, eliminated last year for budgetary reasons. The network is also setting up meetings with ad executives to explain its policy for screening out offensive material...
During his eight years as Vice President, whenever Bush wanted to know what was really going on in Congress or California or Cairo, the former CIA director turned not only to his staff but also to an extensive network of friends, former aides and political allies, who would sometimes report back through special phone and mail channels that skirted his official staff. A former senior Bush staffer says he was "flabbergasted" to learn that the boss "had his own cutouts, just like a spymaster...
Because the military operates many computers at what is called system high, in which all users are cleared for the highest level of information the network possesses, a sophisticated insider who became a spy would have considerable access. The spy could transmit information to a less closely watched part of the network -- or to an outsider -- without appearing to do so by using what is known as a covert channel. This involves signaling the secret message the agent wants to send in binary code by making minute changes in the speed or the order in which the "bits" of other...