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...nation keeps a sharper eye on foreign press coverage of its flammable affairs than Israel. When it does not like what it sees, the Israeli government is quick to express its displeasure to newsmen. But rarely is the criticism as pointed, as personal or as outrageous as it was last week. Angered by a report on ABC'S 20/20 describing Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, Ze'ev Chafets, director of the government press office, charged that certain U.S. and European news organizations suppress negative stories on Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization because they fear...
...often colorful detail. But some famous pictures, like Adams' shot of the Saigon execution are totally unplanned. Then working for the Associated Press, he went with an NBC crew to a pagoda where fighting had been reported. The South Vietnamese had just recaptured the building, but as the newsmen were leaving, they spotted a young prisoner being led away, his arms tied behind his back. An officer, whom they later identified as Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, suddenly appeared and reached for his pistol Adams fast on the draw himself, raised his camera and automatically clicked the shutter...
...pure John le Carré. Alerted to the story, a crowd of journalists waited under the trees outside Bonn's University Clinic, separated from the hospital by a cordon of green-uniformed policemen armed with submachine guns. When a nearby police helicopter started its engine without warning, the newsmen broke toward the aircraft in a dead run, hoping to catch a glimpse of the passenger inside...
Their nine-week debut season led off with a rumbustious, top-of-the-lungs revival of The Front Page, that cynical fairy tale of newsmen with contempt for the truth who nonetheless embrace newspapering with a passion that crushes all other loves. Next week the theater will present Ted Tally's 1977 Terra Nova, a poetic, emotional drama about Robert Falcon Scott's second-place finish in the race to reach the South Pole-and his team's anguished way back, with the last of them dying only a few miles from base camp. While those productions...
...president, Silverman was responsible for much more than prime time. There were affiliates to woo, newsmen to mollify, boardroom games to play. "Silverman tried to be a one-man band," notes Perry Lafferty, NBC's senior vice president of programs and talent on the West Coast. "But he encountered a string of bad luck-a crucial ingredient in this business. He had to cope with an actors' strike, a writers' strike and the loss of the Moscow Olympics last year." The Olympics boycott cost NBC a write-off of $33.7 million-and an invaluable opportunity to promote...