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...FIRST PRESIDENT TO GROW UP in the Age of Television, it was a gathering to relish. Thirty top TV executives--honchos from ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as major cable networks and Hollywood studios--stopped by the White House last Thursday for a meeting. To be sure, it was a command performance (Bill Clinton had proposed the summit in his State-of-the-Union address), and the subject matter was not one the invitees would have picked: sex and violence. But at least everyone was talking the same language. When Viacom's Jonathan Dolgen warned that putting ratings...
...week's White House love-in was the high-profile result of weeks of tricky behind-the-scenes negotiations. A key meeting, TIME has learned, occurred two weeks ago at Al Gore's vice-presidential residence. The private dinner was attended by top executives from the Big Three networks--ABC's Robert Iger, NBC's Robert Wright and CBS's Peter Lund--along with Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the ratings for movies. The session was intended to get industry negotiations back on track after Murdoch had pre-empted the other networks...
...ideological rifts opened during the primary--which have been widened by a barrage of negative ads--may not heal in time for the November election, according to ABC News correspondent Cokie Roberts...
...knew from the beginning that he would get the nomination," ABC News Political Commentator Cokie Roberts said in an interview with The Crimson. "It was just how hard [he would have to fight...
...ABC News set up camp on the press platform, the producer somewhat nervous of the weather, of the logistics and, more significantly, of the fellow in front of the network's camera who might just prevent their soundbite capture. Lucky for them, this fellow raised his Buchanan posters above their video camera so that he would be able to block the camera from Lexington High instead. The kid from the high school had come out there with a paper sign taped to his baseball cap identifying himself as press; had thought to grab a garbage bag to cover the equipment...