Word: surveyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that basketball teams play to win, that coaches can be tough taskmasters, that pretty girls and college recruiters fawn over the best players. If these tedious observations were served up in an interesting way, the movie might at least offer some entertainment. No dice. The American Game is a survey of film-making clichés. There are soupy graphics, split-screen effects, a platitudinous narration. The editing is so splintered that even the few potentially good scenes, those set at the heroes' homes and locker rooms, are too short to allow the characters breathing room. There is also...
...networks' sitcoms, cop shows and soap operas. Cable fans tend to be older than the Three's Company-Happy Days buffs; Showtime, HBO's biggest rival in pay-cable programming, aims many of its specials at an audience aged 40 to 45. A 1978 survey by Young & Rubicam and A.C. Nielsen Co. found that people whose sets are hooked to cable have highly "fragmented" viewing habits. They switch a lot from channel to channel rather than keeping their eyes glued to one for hours. But the survey concluded that viewers do not tune out network shows...
...Michael J. O'Neill, editor of the New York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has added verbosely flamboyant reporter-columnists, 'ILo Jimmy Breslin, whose tough-guy sentimentality is often self-parodying. O'Neill just hopes it will be possible to provide more personal reporting without reviving that curse of the 1960s, opinionated advocacy journalism...
...survey also asked freshmen if council representatives fulfilled their responsibilities. The average response was 2.8 on a one to seven scale...
Mark Olsen '82, the council member who designed and interpreted the survey, said yesterday. "We're disappointed in the negative response, but it's not a result of apathy. Students are just too busy to be that politically interested...