Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...involving three state banks two insurance companies and a computer firm all owned or controlled by Sharp In a separate series of allegations in the complaint, the SEC charged that Sharp had arranged loans and stock purchases for Smith Mutscher. House appropriations chairman W.S. "Bill" Heatly, State Representative Tommy Shannon and two Mutscher aides, in order to obtain passage of two banking bills that would have helped Sharp...
Bill Leonard's eyes snapped with anger. "It's a preposterous piece," he complained, "preposterous." Leonard, senior vice president of CBS News, then sat silent in his makeshift Miami Beach office, loathing William Shannon's New York Times column one more time...
...Shannon's article was the talk, the grumble of the networkers at the Republican Convention. Shannon had flung a custard pie at the screen: "On CBS the ordinary viewer trying to watch a political convention sees so much of the anchor man and his star reporters that the program might well be called Walter Cronkite and His Friends...Likewise, the NBC coverage might be better known as the David Brinkley Show...I think the time has come to ban the media mob from the floor...Then the viewers could enjoy the game-excuse me, the convention...
...executives acted like high priests struck at the altar. William Sheehan, Leonard's opposite number at ABC, found the Shannon piece "terribly wrongheaded." Richard Wald, executive vice president of NBC News, said, "I'd like to see the New York Times cover the podium and nothing else." Douglas Kiker, an NBC floor man, generously included William Shannon as "one of my respected friends. And the piece is fulla crap. Absolutely fulla crap...
...answer to the network coverage, things were a bit more sanguine. No grumble, no pique. For one thing, the New York Times sometimes acts as PBS's fan club ("Surprisingly more effective than the far more elaborate and strained productions"). For another, PBS planned to try exactly what Shannon suggested. It set out to cover the convention's official proceedings only. PBS's two-convention budget was $290,000; the commercial networks', about $20 million. Rather than compete, PBS was manifestly trying to make an asset of a liability. Announced NPACT President James Karayn: "We will...