Word: slants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommending 18 separate "follow-ups" to the Huntley remark, including the planting of a column on news objectivity, the recruitment of a journalism-school dean to speak on press fairness as a serious problem and the production of a prime-time TV special intending to show how commentators can slant news through raised eyebrows. A memo to Magruder from Haldeman's chief assistant, Lawrence Higby, defined the Administration's interest in the Huntley case as a lever against all TV news broadcasting: "The point behind this whole thing is that we don't care about Huntley...
With this terrain to work with, plays were set up like military maneuvers. "Okay, Stretch, run a slant out to the sideline, then cut back to the ditch in the middle. Run your man into the ditch. Maybe he'll break something." Or "Curl in around the rock, but watch out for the bramble bushes--they scratch like hell" (we always used "hell" in the huddle because nobody could hear us there...
...drive on Hefner's long monopoly in 1969-and already sells some 3.4 million copies of Penthouse each month (v. Playboy sales of 6.7 million). Playboy maintained a haughty indifference to Penthouse for three years, then replied last October with Oui, which combined a rambunctious editorial slant with uninhibited nudes pictured in the Penthouse mood. Its latest circulation guarantee-the fourth upward revision in a year-promises a base of 1,750,000 sales in October...
High Pressure. For some, Anatomy should be very reassuring: things move so fast that liberal or conservative commentators do not have time to slant the news. Quite obviously, the kind of nervous system that used to be attracted to city rooms in The Front Page's era now finds its true home in TV control booths. The keyed-up newsmen working for CBS are good at their jobs, at least in part because they are juiced by the constant demand to make decisions at speed. Yet within the inevitable limits of time, this documentary shows, they did a reasonable...
...press by Means and AIM Leader Dennis Banks contrasted sharply with the behavior of the other principals. Chief Wilson made little attempt to clarify his position and was often inaccessible. Federal officials on the scene vacillated between minimal cooperation and the release of bureaucratic handouts. While newsmen did not slant their dispatches in AIM's favor, many did focus on the colorful material at hand-much of it handily offered...