Word: wbz
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Major local television stations WBZ Channel 4, WHDH Channel 7 and WCVB Channel 5 all sent a reporter and a photographer to the Faculty Club to cover the event, according to spokespersons...
Suzanne Bates, a news anchor for WBZ-TV 4 in Boston, said that public cries for reporters to show sensitivity in their stories are misguided...
...People want to see breaking news," she said,citing a WBZ study showing that such events are a"top priority" for viewers...
...pretense is nowhere more pitiful than right here in Boston. WBZ touts its "news" with a commercial featuring "anchor" Jack Williams pounding the mean streets, digging up leads, performing traditionally reporterly duties. The commercial is, of course, completely staged. Williams rarely leaves the studio (and never without a full entourage of producers, assistants, writers, etc.); his main talent is the ability to read large electronic type fluently and the cluck his tongue, shake his head or giggle at the appropriate times. Williams, like his fellow "news" people, should take a cue from the old Tylenol ad, and open the broadcast...
About 15 students and Nieman Foundation fellows in journalism attended the panel discussion of Black current and former journalists. titled "The Media and race in the '90s: Covering the 'Problem People," attracted about 15 students and Neiman Foundation fellows. Daniels was joined on the panel by 24-year WBZ-TV veteran Sarah-Ann Shaw and Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau reporter Sam Fulwood...