Word: newscast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's poor direction will limit its exposure is much as its volatile content. Winter Soldier lacks both imagination and precision functioning at the same level of artistry as a small-town newscast. It was produced by a film collective proud to work without a director, but unfortunately no one made the essential decisions about thematic development and continuity. The interviews reach no conclusions, and convey the mood of "Meet the Press" rather than an important political meeting. Only one veteran breaks the monotony of disconnected testimony by showing the relationship between his Vietnam experiences and his current life...
...were so charming that more than 10,000 letters came in-most of them saying things like "Please send me John Schubeck in a plain brown wrapper." Impressed, the station decided to do virtually that. It ran a contest, with the prize being not only Schubeck but also Fellow Newscaster Joseph Benti, a staff of technicians, a truckload of cameras and cables, and all the paraphernalia needed to deliver a newscast straight from the winner's own home...
...benefit of Hanoi, which the Russians have been assiduously courting in recent months, the Soviet press offered-as proof of U.S.-Chinese "connivance" in the war -the fact that American warplanes continued to attack targets in North Viet Nam even as the Peking summit progressed. One Moscow newscast began with a few minutes of video tape of Nixon and Chou in Peking, then cut to footage of an attack on a Viet Nam village by U.S. planes. Other East-bloc capitals followed Moscow's lead. The Czech party paper Rudé Pràvo snarled that both...
...newspapers and magazines would not assign men to the shadow. There could be one or two press briefings a day, similar to those in the functioning White House. Thus Walter Cronkite could have a film clip on what went on in the aspirant's Administration for his evening newscast. Shadow Cabinet officers could debate their opposite numbers in office, or counter White House claims of benefit or progress...
Abraham Treff, 19, was watching a newscast on TV last November when an interview with Ralph Nader came on. "I said that whatever he's doing the average American can do," Treff recalled. "My friends said I didn't know what I was talking about. So I said I'd investigate the stock market. So they all started laughing and said, 'What'll you find out about the stock market...