Word: yesterday
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...America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...
...network magazine shows highlight the problem. Both are treading gingerly with their re-creations. At the opening of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a correspondent notes, "When re-creations are used, we have carefully documented every important detail and have clearly identified the re-creations." The producers of Saturday Night with Connie Chung point out that their re-enactments must adhere to strict CBS News standards -- which means that all dialogue is taken from documented sources...
...shows are troubling. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is both journalistically superfluous (the gimmick seems to be to repeat the words yesterday, today and tomorrow in each story as often as possible) and dramatically clumsy. A re-creation of the near crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in 1972 featured the original pilot and one flight attendant (now 17 years older) playing themselves, not very convincingly. Another story recounted the ordeal of a woman, nearly paralyzed with cystic fibrosis, who spent 16 years neglected in a mental institution. The piece was light on facts and heavy on sensationalism: the asylum...
...School administrators held a meeting yesterday to determine the effects the new restrictions on the MSP, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "They are discussing what this whole thing means to the MSP now," said the source...
Professors doing research with NIH fundingexpressed concern yesterday over the prohibitiveclauses in the new proposals...