Word: newshour
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ROGER ROSENBLATT has recently returned to TIME after an eight-year absence. We like to think of it as a mere hiatus--although while he was away he did manage to win Peabody and Emmy awards for his work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on pbs, write and perform two one-man off-Broadway shows and contribute essays to such publications as the New York Times and the New Republic. He has also written a forthcoming memoir of Harvard in the 1960s. For his report on the TWA crash, Rosenblatt went to the town near the site, only 10 miles from...
...They should just have one master shot of police and ambulances and yellow police tape because that's all they run. It's the Eyewitness News-ization of America." Again, he won't say what kind of alternative he'll offer, although a passing reference to the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour seems to offer a clue. Building a profitable network on the back of civic-minded public-affairs programming--now that's really counterintuitive...
Answer: because all of American free television with national scope has been seized by the likes of General Electric, Westinghouse, Disney and Rupert Murdoch. The giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...
...chief, was one of the key contributors to the story in this issue on the state of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church on the eve of Pope John Paul II's visit to America. The other was Richard Ostling, a senior correspondent and a frequent commentator on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and CBS Radio...
Asked on PBS' MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour Monday why he didn't speak out years ago, McNamara exclaimed: "What should I have said that would not have brought aid and comfort to the enemy? I was the secretary of defense...