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...sitcom to sell his political message with reworked Borscht Belt shtick; a splendidly confused interpreter who adores women's legs and finds his paradise among the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Serious evil--the garage sale of the title --lurks here too, and the hero, a TV newsman, finds, as so many innocent investigators do these days, that iniquity, like cream, rises to the top. But neither he nor Kanfer is completely daunted. In this zany and touching book, the author laughs all the way to hope...
...searched for support wherever it may find it, enlisting even a former Turner employee, Broadcaster Daniel Schorr, who three months ago left his job as CNN senior correspondent in a contract dispute. For years Schorr had been a CBS newsman. In its petition, CBS cites an article by Schorr that appeared in the June 2 Los Angeles Times. In it Schorr charged that Turner "has encouraged companies to sponsor features associated with their products." He noted, too, that "business leaders are subjects of flattering interviews and their companies sometimes solicited afterward for commercials." While Schorr was surprised to be quoted...
...implication of the ruling is that a publication's emphasis on aggressive reporting could be submitted to a jury as evidence that it was inclined as a matter of policy to be malicious. "If you say, 'I'm a hard-hitting newsman,' that establishes that you hit maliciously," said H. Brandt Ayers, editor- publisher of Alabama's Anniston Star. "It's utterly ridiculous." Observed Richard Smyser, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: "A newspaper's reputation is a subjective matter. It has no place in a court ruling...
...evidence. Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...
...pinnacle of power partying, naturally, is the White House, whose annual holiday bashes are regretted by almost no one asked. Indeed, one tale this year involves a recently divorced newsman. When the White House invitation was mistakenly sent to his old address, his ex-wife accepted, then showed up at the press reception with her new boyfriend. The splitting of the press corps into two gatherings prompted concern that there were separate but unequal "A" and "B" lists; the Washington Post looked into the matter and found that the division was egalitarian, each party boasting roughly the same number...