Word: newarkers
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...tape footage. In this way TV producers can more or less edit reality. Television, even more than other media, has a bias for action and excitement. A small disturbance at a cross-section can, when it fills a TV screen, suggest an entire city in riot. Similarly, during the Newark riots of 1967, TV reporters and their audience were duped into believing that a church assistant was a minister and prominent black spokesman. Hundreds of charges of distortion were brought against the networks for their coverage of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, but a Federal Communications Commission investigation found...
FRANK, Reuven, 48, president of NBC News. Born in Montreal, graduated from the City College of New York, 1942 (B.S.); Columbia, 1947 (M.S.). Reporter, Newark Evening News, 1947-49; night city editor, 1949-50. Joined NBC News in 1950; news editor, Camel News Caravan, 1951-54; producer, political convention coverage, 1956, 1960 and 1964; producer Huntley-Brinkley Report, 1956-62 and 1963-65. Married, two sons. Registered Democrat...
...finally, what happened in Chicago was not a riot, in the sense that the destruction in Watts and Newark was called a "riot." What happened in Chicago was carefully planned. The demonstrators knew before each action that they were going to destroy property and hurt people...
...Fairbanks $26,300 Anchorage 24,375 Honolulu 24,025 New York 22,975 San Francisco 22,975 Cleveland 22,800 Sacramento, Calif22,450 Detroit 22,100 Buffalo 21,750 Pittsburgh 21,750 Los Angeles21,575 Newark 21,575 Carson City, Nev 21,400 Cincinnati 21,400 Toled021...
...claim that terrorism would "antagonize" people. Does that mean that it would antagonize them more than, say, a peaceful march or even a long-haired college kid? Or is it that white people finally noticed the problems of black people only after the blacks burned down Watts, Detroit, and Newark? Blowing up buildings can show that you're serious...