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...days, gridlock. Los Angeles airport will quake with arriving jets. The freeways will turn to stone. Athletes will start digging into the 70,000 dozen eggs. The 3,500 construction workers, having put up the bleachers and the Styrofoam signs, will relax at home, ready to watch ABC'S closeups and moments of Olympic history and expert analyses. No, the hotel never got your reservation. Sorry, this ticket is good only for the first round of archery. The world will look at California, which in turn will look as laid back as Edvard Munch's The Scream. Yet the place...
...High Jumper Dwight Stones won the gold medal as he predicted-no, promised-in 1976, he would probably be a spectator by now, a television commentator most likely. As it happens, he is a part-time member of the ABC Olympic broadcasting team. Eleven years after making his first world mark at 19, the lovable loudmouth in the Mickey Mouse shirt flopped backward over a 7-ft. 8-in. bar last month at the trials and landed somewhere in his own past, right back in the thick of the sport...
...into Moscone Center last week and surveyed their back-seat accommodations, print reporters at the Democratic Convention realized that they were, more than ever, mere onlookers at a network TV spectacular. From the layout of the hall to the schedule of proceedings, everything was designed to assist or beguile ABC, NBC, CBS and a new but virtually coequal presence, Cable News Network. The long, low, wire-laden convention hall looked like, and became, an enormous TV studio. The delegates, the nominal center of activity, served mainly as a massive studio audience, providing emotional (and often selective and misleading) reaction shots...
...spectacular stumble" of syndicated conservative Columnist George F. Will, who, when criticized for helping coach his friend Ronald Reagan for the 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, said he felt exempt 5 from the rules of neutrality because he was not a "journalist." (About to become a regular commentator on ABC's World News Tonight, Will describes himself as "reformed...
...Collegiate Athletic Association created a "television plan" that gave it exclusive control of all college football broadcasts, a control that is now measured in big money. For 1982-85, the N.C.A.A. negotiated $281 million worth of TV deals covering its 509 members that have intercollegiate football teams. Contracts with ABC and CBS contained numerous restrictions designed to spread the wealth. For example, they guaranteed television appearances to both large and small schools, established limits on the number of games that could be broadcast, barred any team from appearing more than six times in two years and effectively set the price...