Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...push the NRA back, bit by bit, the vote last week may have been the first step. Accordingly, interested though I am in the issue, I found Tuesday's editorial rather hysterical, and less than enlightening. Kyle Chadwick...
Nonetheless, PUSH started picketing WBBM's offices twice a week and urged black viewers to tune out. In December the organization presented a proposed agreement to the station. The document called upon WBBM to hire two male black or Hispanic anchors and establish a 40% employment quota for minorities. It said the station should conduct 35% of its banking with black-owned institutions and assign 25% of its legal business to minority lawyers. WBBM also was asked to donate $10 million to the United Negro College Fund and $1 million to "black organizations designated by PUSH...
...Johnathan Rodgers as WBBM's general manager. A seasoned TV executive who left his job as head of the CBS Morning News to take the Chicago job, Rodgers, 40, is a well-liked, decisive manager who happens to be black. Jackson and the Rev. Hycel Taylor, the president of PUSH, hailed the choice as a partial capitulation to their demands, thus making it appear that Rodgers won the job because of his color...
Rodgers understandably resented the implication. He held secret meetings with Jackson and PUSH leaders, who promised to stop claiming credit for his appointment. Rodgers also insisted that he would not sign a PUSH pact that called for hiring quotas or other specific actions. He is said to have told Jackson and the others that if PUSH is interested in cutting a better deal for blacks, it should stop pressuring him publicly. Left alone, Rodgers argued, he would appoint more blacks, but he does not want to appear to be caving in to their demands. Apparently persuaded, Jackson told TIME last...
...second half-hour of WBBM's 6 p.m. news show) and its vastly improved news programs have further siphoned off WBBM's audience. The CBS station has also been bedeviled by internal squabbling so severe that a shoving match once broke out in the newsroom. If Jackson and PUSH spread their campaign to other stations and take the pressure off WBBM, Rodgers may discover that dealing with the reverend was easy compared with attracting rating points from Nielsen...