Word: newscasting
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...prime minister was even quick to capitalize on the coincidence of Pope Benedict XVI's being knocked down in a security breach at the Christmas Eve mass. "We must truly fight back against this factory of lies, extremism and hate," he said on the RAI state television's top newscast after a woman pulled down the pontiff as he entered St. Peter's Basilica...
...Jennings' death in 2005, the head injury Bob Woodruff sustained in Iraq in 2006 and Elizabeth Vargas' pregnancy later that year--thrust him into the anchor's chair. He acquitted himself well, landing the first major TV interview with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin--a triumph that earned his newscast nearly 2 million more viewers than its closest rival. In an e-mail to colleagues, Gibson wrote that his proudest moments were simply uttering the phrase "for all of us at ABC News...
...seat behind the desk of a nightly newscast is the equivalent of a network throne, morning news is more like the couch. But there's money in that couch - more, in fact, than at 6:30 p.m. Despite being a perennial runner-up to NBC's Today show, GMA, under Sawyer, was a huge asset to ABC's bottom line. But the show has struggled recently, allowing CBS's The Early Show to approach it in the ratings. Without Sawyer that struggle gets even harder, and the show may have to reimagine itself as less anchor-driven. "I think what...
...that, the best reason to watch your local 10 o'clock news is for their bottom-of-the-hour human interest stories. You know, a leprechaun in Alabama, that sort of thing. And, as the genius mash-up, "Finally Tonight, Jesus..." points out, one of the more popular newscast-ending segments is that wonderful evergreen, "Look at this crazy [insert object name here] that looks like [insert deity name here]."(See The Internet's 99 Greatest Hits...
...creators to charge for their content. Thus we have a world in which phone companies have accustomed kids to paying up to 20 cents when they send a text message but it seems technologically and psychologically impossible to get people to pay 10 cents for a magazine, newspaper or newscast...