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Network anchors have become frequent fliers partly because of the increasingly portable technology of television. Compact editing and control- room equipment and other video gear can now be transported across the globe without great difficulty. If satellite transmission stations are not available locally, they can be packed up and shipped in. Instant satellite hookups last week made possible such scenes as ABC Commentator George Will sparring with Soviet Journalist Vladimir Posner in Moscow, and President Corazon Aquino in the Philippines being interviewed by Dan Rather in the farm belt...
...televise or not to televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital...
...deliver special one-minute speeches for home consumption. But the main effect of television in the House, says Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, a former Congressman, has been to make legislators more careful about their performances and floor speeches. The Senate, moreover, did not exactly throw itself open to video verite: the new rules preclude camera panning of the chamber to show empty seats or drowsing Senators...
...many of them thank God? Literally? Michael Jackson did at the 28th Grammy Awards when We Are the World, the anthem that raised $50 million for African relief, won four little golden gramophones (for song of the year, record of the year, pop group performance and short music video). Indeed, after the presentation many involved in the all-star record acknowledged that they had felt the hand of the Almighty. "God guided the project the whole time," said Producer Quincy Jones. "We were just there as instruments." Added Stevie Wonder: "It's a people's record, a sign that...
Boehrer and his associates tape sectionleaders--mostly graduate students--in their natural classroom habitats or a video lab and then review the performances and give pointers...