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Even the harshest in-house critics cannot argue with the numbers: the CBS Evening News remains the highest-rated of the three network shows. And if the network's star attraction, Dan Rather, is unhappy with management (as some insiders contend), he says only nice things about his bosses in...
AM stations in particular are attracted to network news and information programming as a way of distinguishing themselves from FM, which has captured the bulk of the music audience. Stations often find it both better and cheaper to put on a network show rather than hire a local personality, especially...
The anonymity often extends to the on air personalities as well. With an average weekly audience of 2,527,000, NBC's Williams is the highest-rated radio talk-show host in America. Yet he could pass unrecognized on any city street, at least as long as he keeps his...
One result is an impressive level of competence. The American Bar Association (A.B.A.) has rated half of Reagan's first-term nominees to the district court exceptionally well qualified or well qualified, a level matched in the previous four presidencies only by the Carter Administration. At the appellate level he...
The screening process is not that narrowly focused, protests Grover ("Rocky") Rees III, who is Meese's special assistant for judicial selection. "We don't have any litmus test." Perhaps not, but the checking procedure has derailed the nomination of the Justice Department's own Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew Frey...