Word: poynter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, the very model of a white-collar slime mold: he's a thief, an accessory to murder and a meanie to his mom. He can't even admit he has a drug problem -- cocaine and alcohol -- until a tough-love therapist (Morgan Freeman), an A.A. veteran (M. Emmet Walsh) and a nervy fellow addict (Kathy Baker) help him see the dark before the light. Some of the early scenes ring as inauthentic as the Philadelphia accents; each supporting junkie pushes too hard, as if he were part of an Actors Lab experiment that failed...
Black's speech broke a long truce between newspapers and television, which find themselves unhappily linked in the public mind as "the media." They are at best wary colleagues: one gets all the glamour and pay, while the other does most of the grunt work. Last month the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson...
...tourist trade, which in smaller markets can augment circulation by as much as 30%. Fourth is a tradition of operating papers as public institutions, not just money-making machines, set by the late owners of the two biggest and best Florida dailies, John Knight of the Herald and Nelson Poynter of the St. Petersburg Times...