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While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...
...affiliates are restive, so are CBS staffers, some of whom are speaking out publicly against what they see as management incompetence. "We get a little annoyed when the company tries to make Ted Turner the villain," says 60 Minutes Producer Alan Weisman. "What the company doesn't talk about is the fact that we've had so few hits in the last few years, or the failed ventures that CBS got itself into. To a great extent, the chickens have come home to roost." Some staff members are actually rooting for a Tisch takeover, on the assumption, in the words...
...COMBAT HUNGER IN THE U.S. A TWO-MINUTE Super Bowl spot for Hands Across America features Hands Co-Chairs Bill Cosby and Lily Tomlin, a host of impoverished children and the song We Are the World. NBC contributed the air time. Said NBC Sports Executive Producer Michael Weisman: "The Super Bowl is America's undeclared holiday, and whether you're rich or poor, everybody comes together. Hands Across America is trying to create the same feeling...
...break is the brainchild of the executive producer of NBC Sports, Michael Weisman, who "thought it would just be nice if everybody could kind of take an intermission." Advertisers applaud the idea, he claims, because viewers will more likely stay put for the commercials. And since the minute will come out of program time, not commercial time, NBC will forfeit no ad revenue ($400,000 per minute on the pregame show; a record $1.1 million per minute during the game). Nor is Weisman concerned about shortchanging viewers. "The universal criticism of Super Bowl pregame shows is that they...
...oldest and proudest stand. Harvard out of South Africa! William McKibben '82 David Edelstein '81 Scott Rosenberg '81 Paul Attanasio '81 Jim Hershberg '82 Katherine States '80 Robert Boorstin '81 Joseph Dalton '79 Paul Englemayer '83 Adam Cohen '84 Tracy Sivitz '83 David DcMilo '80 Andrew Multer '79 Richard Weisman '78 Susan Faludi '81 Michael Miller '84 Sarah Paul '84 Jeffrey Toobin '82 Former Crimson editors