Word: newscasting
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...political analysts. Zorin's background reports came principally from Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's top-ranking Americanologist. Like other Soviet journalists, Zorin adopted a tone of cautious optimism once the summit was under way, telling his audience of 150 million on the 9 o'clock nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage to take even just a first step, that is very good." Nevertheless, the newscasts were less than complete: in a feature on Gorbachev's discussion of nuclear test bans with Jesse Jackson, Broadcaster Boris Kalyagin neglected to mention that Jackson twice expressed concern over Soviet treatment...
...update the water system, jail the local methamphetamine dealers and make a clean sweep of the junk in people's yards-slowly stalled. Given fears for the town's soldiers, it was as if Bradford held its breath for the year they were in combat, hanging on every newscast, every e-mail and call home. "Nothing progressed," says Farrah Chambliss, 28, wife of police chief Josh Chambliss, also a staff sergeant in Iraq. "We ... just floated...
...from overseas family planning clinics that performed abortions. It was a reversal of a measure Bill Clinton issued early in his first term. Fleischer argues "the White House press corps didn't like" Bush's decision. To make his case he sites several examples, including a comparison of ABC Newscasts from 2001 versus 1993. In 2001, he says, ABC's Terry Moran reported that George Bush "made anti-abortion conservatives happy." Yet in 1993, ABC anchor Peter Jennings had softer language about Clinton's decision to allow such funding. "President Clinton kept a promise today..." said Jennings. Fleischer opines that...
...FLAP OVER HIS 60 MINUTES report on President Bush's National Guard service has marred Dan Rather's retirement from the CBS Evening News after 24 years. But one thing you can be sure of: Rather--who once signed off from his newscast with the word "Courage"--will put some thought into his Wednesday-night farewell. He may even study some of the parting words of anchors past. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...Amount of time a typical half-hour local newscast devotes to U.S. foreign policy, including the war in Iraq...