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...Justice. While Operation Rescue lawyers asked the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate Kelly's antiharassment injunction, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas, Lee Thompson, filed an amicus curiae brief contending that federal courts had no jurisdiction over the case. Kelly, in an almost unprecedented TV interview on ABC's Nightline about the proceedings, angrily charged the Justice Department with giving its "imprimatur" to "a license for mayhem...
...wanted to watch the game.) Why did Dan Rather walk off the set in September 1987, leaving six minutes of dead airtime on the CBS Evening News? Auletta's second-by-second account is more sympathetic to Rather than many others. There are fresh nuggets as well. ABC anchorman Peter Jennings, before signing a new contract in late 1987, was weighing an offer from CBS to become Rather's co- anchor. NBC president Robert Wright once suggested that stars like Bill Cosby and Don Johnson be used as hosts of news documentaries...
...division? "You think they're happy?" he snapped.) Tisch, the Loews chairman who had never fired an employee before taking over CBS in 1986, is portrayed as a Wall Street trader with no strategic vision and few management skills. Tom Murphy, who engineered Capital Cities Communications' 1985 acquisition of ABC, is the hero of this tale by default. Though Cap Cities' no-frills style caused a rude culture shock at ABC, eventually Murphy proved to be the most humane and broadcast- ) savvy of the new network owners...
...publishing. To be sure, Auletta's 600-plus-page account could use trimming. But his writing is never less than serviceable, and usually quite lucid. A bigger problem lies in the subject itself. Each of the episodes Auletta recounts -- Tisch's fight to gain control of the CBS board, ABC News president Roone Arledge's battle to keep 20/20 on Thursdays at 10 p.m. -- was once a hot topic in media circles. Today they seem more like questions for a 1980s edition of Trivial Pursuit. In his zest for detail, Auletta trudges dutifully through events that are now just...
...AMERICAN GAMES (ABC, Aug. 3-18). ABC Sports, shut out of the Olympics for a good while, will try to recapture the thrill of victory with more than 20 hours of coverage of the hemispheric competition, originating from Cuba...