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...human drama and journalistic rigor, and made Howard Cosell and Monday Night Football national obsessions. Traditionalists were alarmed when the sports guy was named president of ABC News in 1977. But he made the No. 3 news network a competitive force for the first time, paying Hollywood salaries to newscasters like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, expanding news into prime time with shows like 20/20 and badgering the network to air a late-night newscast during the Iran hostage crisis, which turned into Nightline, one of TV's most revered news shows...
...group has been gradually sidelined by a lack of cable access, according to Debra T. Mao ’05, a newscast producer and general assignment reporter for WHRB...
...contrast to the documentary asceticism of the guide’s perspective, the scenes played out on the television screens, representing the separate rooms of Gambaro’s original staging, present an array of traditional genres: sitcom, film noir, newscast...
...viewers feel the same way? A November study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that most Americans wanted journalists to "dig hard" for war news rather than "trust officials." But most also favored military censorship. And as nearly every TV newscast was decking itself in electronic bunting, Pew's respondents gave the press high marks for both objectivity and "stand[ing] up for America." The apparent lesson: the public wants the media to dig hard--for good news. Still, Bruckheimer says Profiles won't be a whitewash. "Black Hawk shows a lot of blemishes...
...Figuratively, anyway, anthrax is in the air. It dominates the headlines and a significant portion of almost any newscast these days. But we're worrying for nothing. Remember: On September 11 the terrorists attacked the highest-profile targets they could find in America. Anthrax has mostly turned up in high-profile places. Even though everyone seems to feel like they're living in the crosshairs of the terrorists' scopes, I must break the bad news: Almost none of us matter to the terrorists. We don't count. (This even applies to the governors of Midwestern states who have begun keeping...