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When confronted with that question, I wish Jesse Owens were alive to answer it. Most American schoolkids, and anyone who has seen at least five episodes of ABC's Wide World of Sports, know about Owens. He was the Black athlete who participated in the 1936 Olympics--held in, of all places, Berlin. And not just any old Berlin, but a Berlin awash in swastikas. A Berlin presided over by a man with a funny mustache who spouted ludicrous theories about the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of most others, including, of course, the Black race...
...agreed last week to buy the nation's largest independent television archipelago, with stations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas, Houston and Boston. The price tag is $2 billion, making the acquisition the second largest in broadcasting history. (First place belongs to the $3.5 billion takeover of ABC by Capital Cities Communications in March.) The new owners will immediately sell Metromedia's Boston outlet, WCVB-TV, to the Hearst Corp. for $450 million. Murdoch and Davis will end up with six stations that reach one out of every / five U.S. households, thus providing a potent market...
...Smiling like a kindly uncle but persistently ducking the questions of Nightline's Ted Koppel, Tho thanked "the American people for their support and contribution to our present victory." That smug expression of gratitude, delivered about a war that holds such painful memories for Americans, further galled Kissinger. On ABC's Good Morning America next day, he reiterated his complaint about television's handling of the anniversary. "Millions of people were killed in Viet Nam after the takeover," said Kissinger. "I've heard nobody say that...
...tenth anniversary was nothing." Network executives acknowledge that the Vietnamese built up the April 30 parade into an extravaganza of 10,000 marchers and 200,000 spectators because they knew the event would be broadcast on U.S. television. "There was no doubt they played up to us," said ABC News Executive Vice President David Burke. "They're no different from anybody else." The resulting broadcasts spent little time explaining the restrictions that were imposed or discussing the possibility that Vietnamese officials might be using American TV as a propaganda ploy. One notable exception: ABC Correspondent Steve Bell's scrupulously detailed...
...networks provided live pictures from Viet Nam, but the costs did not seem worth it. NBC News spent an estimated $1.2 million for its live coverage, including four Today programs, with Bryant Gumbel as host, from Ho Chi Minh City. ABC News paid about the same, mostly for four Nightline shows from Indochina and reports on Good Morning America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised...