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...pivotal question is whether reporters' personal values actually color their stories. Although it seems self-evident that they do, some scholars, such as political scientist Michael Genovese of Loyola Marymount University, contend that there is no clear proof of it. ABC's Brit Hume says his avowed conservatism never intrudes on his work: "It's not hard to keep bias out; you just have to be conscious of it. Most reporters are in denial." Some journalists go to great lengths to appear neutral. Executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. of the Washington Post abstains from voting and urges his staff, especially...
...awful," says Crystal. "Gilda ((Radner)) walked me to the elevator. I was crying all the way home on the Long Island Railroad, the tears running down the makeup." While friends Chevy Chase and John Belushi went on to become household names, he had to settle for a spot on ABC's wacky series Soap, playing television's first prime-time homosexual. Then came the ill-conceived Billy Crystal Comedy Hour in 1982, which NBC promoted as a male version of the Carol Burnett show. "We were up against The Love Boat and first-run movies without much network backing," Crystal...
...froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand, CNN says Twenty Hundred. Then you can fall asleep counting millennial sheep...
...woman from ABC News will ask a tough question about the deficit. Big Ears will say it's all in my plan, Poppy will say it's too early to tell and Elvis will begin a four-part answer with footnotes...
With the progress in detection and treatment has come a wave of publicity about this very private kind of cancer, which was once rarely talked about. Many prominent men, from ABC News chief Roone Arledge to musician Frank Zappa, have revealed that they have the disease. Others, like Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who underwent an operation for early prostate cancer last December, are actively encouraging men 50 and older or with a family history of the illness to get tested and become familiar with the warning signs: frequent or difficult urination, blood in the urine, painful ejaculation or continuous lower...