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...like, it is rare for a business to close its doors entirely to a news organization. Detroit's automakers, for example, have a selective boycott of television. Since 1980 General Motors executives have refused to grant interviews to reporters from CBS's 60 Minutes or ABC's 20/20 because the networks will not allow the company to edit the videotapes. Ford generally limits interviews with television reporters to brief exchanges. A Ford spokesman claims that when the networks edit a longer interview, "questions and answers can be taken out of context...
...part investigation, broadcast to viewers of ABC's World News Tonight last September, was bizarre by any measure. Scott Barnes, who has sometimes presented himself as a "paramilitary expert," claimed he had taken a job as a prison guard in 1983 at the request of the CIA to watch Ronald Rewald, a Honolulu investment counselor who is under indictment for defrauding approximately 400 investors of $22 million. Barnes said that the CIA then told him, "We gotta take him out." According to the ABC show, Rewald's company had provided cover for several CIA operations, including the arrangement...
...ABC's statement has not satisfied the intelligence agency, which took the unprecedented step of filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The CIA charged that ABC violated the FCC's Fairness Doctrine by broadcasting "outlandish statements" in "reckless disregard for the truth." (The fairness regulation requires that broadcasters "afford reasonable opportunity for the presentation of contrasting viewpoints.") The CIA took the unusual action because the Supreme Court has indicated that federal agencies cannot sue news organizations for libel. In its complaint the CIA asked that the FCC order ABC to retract "all false allegations," and that...
Determining the truth of the ABC story may prove difficult because the CIA'S link with Rewald is murky. At the agency's request, a U.S. district-court judge in Hawaii has sealed all documents in a federal proceeding involving the investment counselor on the grounds of national security. CIA Spokeswoman Kathy Pherson says flatly of Barnes: "The CIA has never had any relationship" with...
...bring their shows to NBC. "The unfortunate thing for the last-place ball team is that you don't get to hit against your own pitching," he explains. "Producers went to NBC third because they didn't want their new show to face a 40-share on ABC called Happy Days or Three's Company. "NBC's solution was to convince producers that the network would stick with new shows longer. "We wanted to give the audience time to find a show, and the creative community appreciated that," Tartikoff says...