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After all, how else to explain the fact that an estimated 13% of 17-year- olds and perhaps 40% of minority youth are considered functionally illiterate? . That less than one-third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently...
...REMEMBRANCE (ABC, Nov. 13-23). Cast of thousands! Cost of millions! Makes Roots look like a sapling! This mammoth sequel to The Winds of War will spend 30-plus hours -- 18 now, at least twelve next year -- following Navy officer "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) from Pearl Harbor...
Nonetheless, broadcast journalism has a lot to be proud of in 1988. Such programs as the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, CNN's Inside Politics '88 and ABC's Nightline regularly provided distinguished coverage. In addition, as the campaign wore on, the networks endeavored to bring greater depth to the nightly news, focusing on issues and exposing some of the candidates' distortions. "Television reporters didn't trivialize the campaign," says Andrew Stern, a professor at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. "The candidates...
...Channel Five told me what the networks had sworn not to divulge until 11:00 p.m.--that George Bush will be the forty-first President. When ABC projected that he had captured Missouri's ten electoral votes, Bush crossed the magic threshold of 270 electoral votes...
...five-minute back-to-back interviews on ABC's "World News Tonight," and both were asked about the nastiness that has pervaded this year's race. Bush said his campaign has been "hard-hitting, but it's been fair and it's been accurate." He said Dukakis has run his full share of negative commercials, as well...