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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...
...family-sensitive alternative in Miami is being offered by WCIX-TV, a CBS affiliate currently No. 4 in the ratings. A recent early-evening newscast, for instance, featured a story about the tearful homecoming of 43 local students who were on an Amtrak train that derailed in North Carolina. Yet there were no shots of the deadly accident. Says Allen Shaklan, the station's general manager: "Rubbernecking coverage -- the stuff that causes people to stop and turn in disgust -- we won't do when youngsters may be watching...
...family-sensitive approach is typically confined to early-evening newscasts, with stronger material reserved for late-night programs. At WCNC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, however, the time lapse is only an hour: after a G-rated 5 p.m. show, the crime wave hits at 6 o'clock. The top story on a % recent 5 p.m. newscast concerned a local political candidate accused of doctoring his resume. Unmentioned was the discovery of a woman's dismembered body in a burning trash can; that was the lead story (sans graphic footage...