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...network runs hourly judicial-news updates all day and weekly prime-time segments on consumer law, small-claims courts, * and parole and death-penalty issues. This month it will introduce The System, a weekly show that Brill describes as a "nonfiction Law & Order," tracking cases from arrest to judgment. On-air personalities like Cynthia McFadden (who has just been hired away by ABC News) and Terry Moran (who is covering the Menendez trial) have gained a devoted following...
...spirited, horrendously tasteless, occasionally racist lampoons. It's he, not Limbaugh, who uses outrageous put- downs and salty language, right? Such as calling a former U.S. Senator "Alan ('the Cadaver') Cranston" and Perot "a hand grenade with a bad haircut." It's Stern, surely, who used to do an on-air stunt with vacuum- cleaner sound effects dubbed "caller abortions," who chatted with a female caller about giving him "a throat massage" with her tongue, whose current newsletter article on health-care reform is headlined BEND OVER, AMERICA, and who just last week on the radio delivered a parody...
...Letterman was a notorious malcontent, getting upset over real and perceived network slights, like a cost-saving proposal that he share studio space with The Maury Povich Show. At CBS he has schmoozed with affiliates, had nothing but kind words for network executives and recorded dozens of on-air promos, which have run ad infinitum since mid-July -- a campaign, says Letterman, that "is now officially embarrassing even me." Some of the spots, in their snide way, seem intended to reveal a softer side of the acerbic late-night host. In one, Letterman talks about his two sisters. The older...
Craig, for his part, defends the practice of taking on-air credit for what are frequently the opinions of others. "It's a team effort," he says. "Bill Clinton doesn't write all his own speeches. Billy Crystal doesn't write all his jokes." Half his reviews, he points out, are unfavorable, and he sees nothing wrong with drawing attention to the raves. "I have no problem, and neither do the people who work with me, advertising the fact that we like a movie, putting it out there and receiving some publicity...
...SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE THERE IS A HELL FOR journalists, it probably resembles the current condition of NBC News. Last month Dateline NBC stars Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching fire in a test crash but did not reveal that incendiary devices had been attached to the vehicle to help ensure a blaze. A week later, anchor Tom Brokaw expressed his regrets for several aspects of a Nightly News report about environmental abuses on an Idaho river. It featured footage...