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...news" of deaths and deficits rather than the good works of, for example, the Boy Scouts. He accused "the media" of undermining the credibility of the U.S. Army through "anti-American" coverage in Viet Nam. His own station, lacking the resources to compete for serious news viewers, aired its newscast at 3 a.m. The show took itself so lightly that Anchor Bill Tush once read an entire script with his face hidden behind a photograph of Walter Cronkite...
...stroll. No one in Swidnik, a factory town 100 miles southeast of Warsaw, claims to know just who made that first "news-walk," but within days almost the entire population of 30,000 began to crowd the tree-lined main street for an evening promenade during the 7:30 newscast. When local authorities clamped on a 7 o'clock curfew to counter the protest, the resourceful residents of Swidnik took a walk during the 5 o'clock news broadcast. Frustrated officials finally lifted the curfew, and after a month of newswalks, Swidnik's citizens decided they...
...threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that, because the real context of the country is terror." ABC balanced Wooten's words at the next opportunity, the evening newscast, when Richard Threlkeld delivered an upbeat assessment of the vote...
...first day of the rest of your careers." He quickly purged the Evening News production staff of Cronkite's crew, added electronic music, a new set and ABC-style computerized control-room gadgets. CBS even adopted ABC'S penchant for hyping upcoming stories throughout the newscast...
...player or team that intensifies their watching interest, and, by the end of the game, their hopes have been satisfied or their worries confirmed. Sauter thinks viewers also invest emotionally in people they see in the news. Trouble is, there is no final score anxieties, the end of a newscast, and the evening news resolves few anxieties...