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Jack is a classic newsroom journalist -- a reporter turned editor, hard driving and known to explode occasionally. He also has faith in America's ability to cure its ills. "Despite the lack of vision from Washington, this country has enormous strengths that can get us through a difficult time," he says. "The baby boomers, who grew up with the civil rights and women's movements, Vietnam and the sexual revolution, will have control of the country. How they cope will be the biggest story around...
...cocaine journalists'?" mocked one. Last week, as several hundred ASNAE members arrived in Washington for their four-day annual meeting, the organization released the results of its survey. While most of the more than 200 respondents felt their employers were tolerant of gays, they reported widespread homophobia in the newsroom. They also judged their newspapers' coverage of gay-related issues to be mediocre and found management uninterested in hearing their ideas about improving...
Such indifference does not necessarily imply conscious hostility to homosexuals. Some editors, for example, simply assume that gay and lesbian journalists are too scarce to be important. "In this newsroom there're so few of them, they're not a factor," said Norman Bell, managing editor of the Tacoma Morning News Tribune. Others decline to acknowledge gay staffers or solicit their views for fear of seeming discriminatory or of violating their privacy...
...shrewd countermove by Atlanta cable kingpin Ted Turner. Starting last September, Turner's Cable News Network began offering a classroom newscast of its own, without commercials. (Time Warner Inc. owns 18% of CNN's parent, Turner Broadcasting Co., and 50% of Whittle Communications.) The 15-minute show, CNN Newsroom, is telecast each morning at 3:45; schools with cable can tape it and play it back later in the day. Turner's nonprofit venture does not offer free equipment, but many cable operators have agreed to connect noncable schools gratis if they sign up for CNN's program. More than...
...every country on the globe, beamed to embassies in Europe, oil platforms in the North Sea and satellite dishes in the jungles of Peru. (Turner just received permission to set up a receiving dish for CNN in Viet Nam.) The network is also pursuing the youth market with CNN Newsroom, a daily 15-minute news program seen in 5,600 schools...