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...journalism is now widely viewed as a "challenge" if not a headache. Despite power, prestige and a salary that may exceed $1 million, whoever takes the job will have to contend with problems ranging from a persistent third-place rating for NBC's Nightly News to the lingering shame from Dateline's rigging of a crash fire to illustrate a piece about design defects in some General Motors trucks. An investigative report released by NBC last week found "misjudgments and professional lapses" in Dateline's production and led to the ouster of three producers...
...shame that Big Business seems willing to put its commitment to free enterprise, i.e., the insurance industry, ahead of an obvious and effective solution. It would be worse than a shame -- a betrayal -- if the Clintons were to ignore public demand and go for a cumbersome, jerry-built plan designed to benefit the most parasitical element of the health-care system...
...children's story, and the good guys get the last word. Peggy Charren, the veteran kidvid activist, notes that educational shows rarely get high ratings because they must be geared toward specific age groups; that is why government monitoring must supplement the marketplace. "It's a bloody shame," she says, "that in a country as rich and achieving as this one, you had to drag the broadcasters kicking and screaming to serve children." Now, perhaps, the kicking may subside and the serving will start...
...this reticence a matter of residual shame -- retained from his religious childhood -- or considerate tact? People who were close to Gunn are sure they know the answer. Says Vanessa Caldwell, his assistant at the Montgomery (Alabama) Women's Medical Clinic: "He was a very open, honest man. I think that's why it bothered him that his family didn't know the kind of work he did, exactly. He knew it would hurt them if they found...
...human condition. To this end, he stuffs ponderous, unwieldy philosophical proclamations into the mouths of his characters. Jenna, the swimming coach who thinks that her pornographic part prompted the suicides, tells herself. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh, and once passion turns to shame, our lives become apology." McNally cannot disguise preaching by putting it in the mouths of his characters...