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...fellow PUSH leaders have staged a viewer boycott of CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago. Jackson last week said that he is trying to expand the campaign not only to four other CBS-owned stations but to the network as well. PUSH representatives met with the general managers of WCBS-TV in New York City and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles last week and their counterpart at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia two weeks ago; talks are being sought with KMOX-TV in St. Louis. Next week Jackson will air his complaints at CBS's annual stockholders' meeting in Philadelphia. After...
...before their live show at Nassau Coliseum. Born retarded, he had lived in a residential treatment center since he was six, following the death of both parents. Until he shone on Thursday's Child, a weekly news feature conducted by Anchorwoman Michele Marsh on New York's WCBS-TV, he seemed destined to stay there. But five months after his appearance, he had been taken in by an adoptive family...
...interest is serious, the adoption process can be exacting and lengthy (generally six to twelve months). Nevertheless, an impressive number of the children find an adoptive home. Oklahoma City's KOCO, for example, has helped to place 92 of the 119 it has profiled. New York's WCBS, 21 out of 35; and Atlanta's WXIA, with Wednesday's Child conducted by Ellen Bryan, 79 out of 177 since precise record keeping began. Geraldine Jackson, head of Georgia's adoption exchange program, describes this as "an enviable record." Says she: "These are children who have...
...People only have so many emotions, and we constantly asked them to come up with more. After a while, I began to feel stupid." In New York City, some reporters disobeyed their editors' instructions to follow Barbara Rosen, wife of one of the hostages. Explained J.J. Gonzales of WCBS-XV: "There is a line between coverage and harassment." As the hostages prepared to return home at week's end, a protective Government made plans to ensure them a measure of privacy. The reunion with their families was set for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where -aside...
Despite the unprecedented journalistic response, there were limits. On the Sunday after Lennon's death, when many mourners observed ten minutes of silence in his memory, New York's WCBS-TV cut away from the Philadelphia Eagles-St. Louis Cardinals football game to cover the mute tribute, its cameras panning over saddened faces in Central Park. Hundreds of angry callers jammed the station's switchboard to complain...