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Three weeks before, Rosenthal had visited Boston. His lecture at the Harvard Faculty Club, an address for the Nieman Fellows (journalists who take a sabbatical year at Harvard), was scheduled tentatively, depending on an absence of any national crises that might require his attention...
After the Nieman dinner--a five-hour session of cocktails, roast beef, wine and more cocktails--Rosenthal headed for bed at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Just after he fell asleep, the phone rang. I apologized for calling so late an hour...
...frightening things that is happening in local TV news is that it's becoming successful," says William Leonard, a veteran television newsman who is now CBS vice president in Washington. As he told a group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard recently, local TV news used to be "provided grudgingly so you wouldn't lose your license." But the amount of news has lately been increased substantially because news shows now often provide half of a station's revenue. The resulting rivalry for ratings and hours reminds Leonard of the shoddy newspaper-circulation wars earlier in the century...
...course's attraction to people from every generation and occupation --from housewives to Nieman fellows--made the course an extraordinarily enriching experience for all those involved, Hunt added...
...besides, sometimes they give us and Public Interest say, similar articles." Saylor and White are looking first of all for student political writing, and second, for off-beat articles by people who do get published all the time but would never ordinarily write pieces out of their fields. Nieman Fellows are a case in point--James Scudder, a city editor for the Arkansas Democrat, wrote on power vacuums and irresponsibility at Harvard in the HPR last winter...