Word: reuven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...countering 60 Minutes and 20/20 by carving out a weeknight time slot this fall for its 3½-year-old monthly magazine now called Weekend, an eclectic mix of investigative and lighthearted reports. Executive Producer Reuven Frank is casting for someone to share the increased work load with Writer-Reporter Lloyd Dobyns but otherwise plans no major changes. Says Frank: "Carbon copies don't work." One Weekend feature that will have to change when the show goes midweekly is the name. Says an executive who has survived a wave of demoralizing layoffs at NBC: "Knowing the way our company...
...already a folk hero on merit, and Reuven Katz, his attorney, hopes to make Bench a millionaire before John becomes 30. Bench sings. He sings on key and with a quiet intensity, but all the songs are sad. One tells of a broken marriage. In another an old man is bereft of everything but a dog and watermelon wine. A third describes young people who are desperate in a wash of ruined dreams...
...country's investigative journalism focused on Senator Thomas Eagleton and his psychiatric history. Political reporters did not know quite what to make of the Watergate business and had relatively little curiosity about it because it was not catching on as a campaign issue. The networks did little original reporting. Reuven Frank, then president of NBC News, says that television at that stage served as a "national echo chamber" for the work of others...
...There is no documentary," network lawyers argue, "dealing with and exposing any social problem to which the reasoning of the [FCC] staff opinion could not apply." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who is representing NBC, says that the FCC "is moving into the newsroom more than ever before." Charges Executive Producer Reuven Frank, NBC news president at the time the documentary was shown: "If this were a rule, it would mean that television news must never examine a problem in American life without first ascertaining that we had piled up enough points on the other side...
...public interest. Without the rule, dissenting views would have no automatic access to TV. But if electronic journalists must pair every discovery of specific ills with assurances of general health, the result will be a bland journalism that serves no one's interest. "A fire is reported," says Reuven Frank, "but not the houses that didn't burn." Should network producers like Frank decide that they must use news time for programs, on unburnt houses, they will be apt to avoid tough subjects entirely. The eventual settlement of the NBC case is certain to have enormous impact...