Word: newscasters
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Though few adult TV watchers know her, Ling is a celebrity to millions of American teenagers. In between classes at U.S.C., she works as a correspondent for Channel One News, which sends a daily 12-minute newscast to 12,000 American secondary schools. Since its debut in 1990, Channel One has been a controversial operation, mainly because inside each program it packages two minutes of commercials for products like Pepsi and Reebok shoes. Created by media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle (who sold it last year to K-III Communications), Channel One still raises hackles in some quarters: officials in New York...
...RATHER CBS newscast rises to second place in first post-Chung ratings...
That information could come as a five-minute capsule about Congress on every evening newscast. Of course the government wouldn't script the reports, but national network would be required to cover daily sessions. Radio newscasts could carry similar capsules...
...pretty effective. So is the station's news operation: with 18 correspondents (two of its cameramen have died in Israeli bombardments), Lighthouse has earned a reputation for in-depth coverage of Lebanon's conflict with Israel; even political opponents tune in to the evening newscast...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...