Word: newscaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...network's limited schedule -- the fact that Fox is only a part-time network -- that made it attractive. Fox offers just 15 hours of prime-time shows a week (in contrast to 22 for the Big Three); it has no morning programming, no afternoon soap operas and no evening newscast. Today many stations see this not as a drawback but as an opportunity to program more of their schedule themselves, both with locally produced shows and with syndicated fare. These shows give stations a chance to earn more ad revenue because they make available more local advertising spots than...
...paragraphs in stories deep inside the paper; it also printed a column by William Safire chiding other journalists for taking her seriously. The Los Angeles Times, by contrast, unhesitatingly reported Jones' charges in February. Of the TV networks, ABC ran a brief and oblique mention on an evening newscast in February, but NBC, CNN and CBS held off until last week, and even then mostly gave the story short shrift. TIME briefly mentioned the case in a two-page story on Clinton haters in the April 11 issue, while last week Newsweek used the gist of Jones' charges...
...critics mean making the rest of the community aware of the incidence and horror of rape. My critic are thereby admitting that the rally is an act of shameless exploitation, manipulating victimized women for the sake of an article in the press or a mention in the nightly newscast...
...reporter is disciplined for trompe l'oeil newscast...
...conceptual contradiction between the gracefulness of the act of figure skating and the cynical cunning of the attack which is the key to the story's appeal. A recent report on a network newscast featured aspiring skaters holding forth on how often skates are stolen or deliberately damaged. We are hardly surprised at similar cheating in other arenas, but somehow it is more difficult to reconcile this with a sport best associated with the spritely enthusiasm of Scott Hamilton. Success in figure skating, as in any other sport, promises substantial financial rewards. And people, graceful or otherwise, often will stoop...