Word: salant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newspapers, wire services and newsmagazines were willing to testify before - but not to be part of- the Sidle group or any other Government body attempting to write guidelines for the press. Journalists on the panel, however, included such men as Keyes Beech, a Pulitzer-winning war correspondent, and Richard Salant, who once headed CBS News...
...conservative Christian organizations from which they were rather casually drawn. TIME correspondents last week found no upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual as the title character...
...sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
...renaissance is being felt most acutely by NBC. That network was plagued by uncertain corporate and news leadership through most of the 1970s, and only last year began to get its administrative house in order. Facing mandatory retirement at CBS, Richard Salant, 65, signed on as vice chairman for news at NBC, which has no set retirement age. In August he recruited Bill Small, a hard-driving former CBS Washington bureau chief, to be president of NBC'S news division. Says Small: "We are going to be hiring producers, correspondents, whatever, to increase our bench strength...
...Salant and Small have their hands full, and not only with the Nightly News, which has as its host the literate but low-key John Chancellor, 52. The network's eight-month-old magazine show, Prime Time Saturday with Tom Snyder, is floundering. In addition, the Today show, its once prolific profit maker (a reported $7 million last year), has lately slipped in the ratings behind ABC's Good Morning America, a homey mix of news, gossip, interviews and self-improvement tips. Today's own efforts to be more folksy and entertaining have only undermined its prestige. Recalls...