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...operations salivate over. A 14-year-old boy had shot himself to death in a parked car beside a freeway moments after killing his mother in their suburban Minneapolis home. Like every other station in the Twin Cities, WCCO-TV gave the story prominent play on its early-evening newscast. But, astonishingly, the station showed none of the gruesome footage that was available -- a shot of the boy slumped in his car, another of his mother's covered body being carried from their home. Instead the story was told by old-fashioned talking heads: reporters describing the events; child therapists...
...what's really happening in society," says Joseph Angotti, a former senior vice president of NBC News and now a professor of communications at the University of Miami. According to a survey conducted by Angotti's students, one Miami station -- Fox affiliate WSVN -- devoted fully 49% of its newscast time to crime during a typical week last November. So notorious has WSVN's crime fixation become that nine South Florida hotels have decided to black out some or all of the station's programming in their 2,640 guest rooms...
...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...
...announcement, and the affiliation shake-up could have more depressing ramifications. Ratings for the CBS Evening News, for example, already in the doldrums, could be further hurt if the network is forced to align itself with former Fox stations that, typically, do not have an early-evening newscast as a lead-in. In any case, the inevitable scramble for affiliates promises to be a no-win game for all three networks. "There's going to be a lot of churn at the networks," says Stringer. "Loyalty just went out the window. That isn't really good for broadcasting...
...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...