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...critics mean making the rest of the community aware of the incidence and horror of rape. My critic are thereby admitting that the rally is an act of shameless exploitation, manipulating victimized women for the sake of an article in the press or a mention in the nightly newscast...
...reporter is disciplined for trompe l'oeil newscast...
...conceptual contradiction between the gracefulness of the act of figure skating and the cynical cunning of the attack which is the key to the story's appeal. A recent report on a network newscast featured aspiring skaters holding forth on how often skates are stolen or deliberately damaged. We are hardly surprised at similar cheating in other arenas, but somehow it is more difficult to reconcile this with a sport best associated with the spritely enthusiasm of Scott Hamilton. Success in figure skating, as in any other sport, promises substantial financial rewards. And people, graceful or otherwise, often will stoop...
...material shamelessly, not just from Saturday Night Live (caught in the midst of a phone call at the start of his nightly News Update) but even from The Groove Tube, the '60s comedy revue that gave him his first break (the camera lingering mercilessly on the anchorman when the newscast is over...
Most local news directors concede that KABC's all-Jackson newscast crossed over the line. But generally they defend tie-ins as legitimate feature stories that help boost viewership, much as a newspaper's entertainment section or comics page does. "It's a question of balance," says Bruno Cohen, news director of New York's WNBC-TV. "Is there a place in a program for a good, interesting tie-in to what the prime-time programming was? Yes, if it's not overused, and the rest of the newscast does...