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...STATION should heed these lessons, it's channel 7. Viewer rejection of the channel, even with the popular John Henning (who's now anchoring channel four, by the way) suggests not so much a rejection of Henning as the news operation itself. Perhaps the viewers simply didn't feel channel 7 was doing a credible job of reporting the news. Perhaps instead of bringing in high-priced anchor talent, a handful of skilled reporters could have been hired to improving much more of the news operation...
...Corot and Degas. Returning to a busy Manhattan street for one of his most recent paintings, he once again plays the role of the bystander. Dressed in the now familiar gray suit and Chico hat, arms hanging loosely-perhaps helplessly-at his sides, the artist looks searchingly at the viewer, who is his alter ego. The 1980 picture is called Quo Vadis...
...comedies with laugh tracks, but network news coverage isn't shoddy. CBS, ABC and NBC each spend about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans do, end up spottily informed. Richard Nixon, who can be right some...
...director's original compositions. European television has been using such masking for years, but American television has remained leery. "It's dreadful," says a Cinemax executive. In 1981, according to the executive, when HBO acceded to Woody Allen's request that it show his Manhattan masked, viewer response was negative: "You just can't laugh at Woody Allen when he's only 1½ inches tall...
...have more than a few manufacturers of pre-recorded video cassettes provided a masked version of a film. The supposition seems to be that the viewer neither cares nor notices; but the viewer has never been presented with an alternative. During preparations for the network showing of Close Encounters, Spielberg inquired about showing the movie masked. He says an ABC executive told him flat out that this was impossible, that FCC regulations did not permit...