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...disagree with your criticism of ABC's Olympic coverage. It is wonderful to see millions of Americans, including the broadcasters, supporting the home team...
...ABC's coverage has been reprehensible. Dominated by a deeply ingrained provincialism, the network showed disdain for competitors not vying directly with U.S. athletes and for sports not familiar to the American public...
...Olympic Committee, the National Sports Foundation and various youth groups. Ticket sales of 5,797,823 broke the Moscow record (5,466,321) and left Montreal in the dust (3,195,170). Considering high ratings-90% of all American households had the Games on at some time-ABC seems unlikely to press for a boycott rebate. Anchorman Peter Jennings and the whole fall schedule have been shirt-tailing to glory...
...where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage. Such journalistic triumphs are no longer possible now that conventions have become bland commercial pageants designed to market a candidate known in advance. Jeff Gralnick, in charge of ABC's operation, calls conventions "dinosaurs...
...Governor Cuomo, Jesse Jackson or Fritz Mondale, much can be forgiven. These fine speeches reminded us that a skilled orator, adjusting intuitively to the crowd's response, employs a different and more demanding art than the numbing nattering of commentators. Television talk has been memorably defined by ABC's Sam Donaldson: "You get the mouth working and hope the mind will follow...