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...ABC's Viewpoint puts correspondents on the firing line...
...programs to angry advocates and ordinary citizens. NBC has quoted viewer letters on NBC Magazine and Meet the Press. CBS has aired letters too, and last year had its 60 Minutes reporters examine on air their own reporting techniques. By far the most ambitious and risky effort has been ABC's Viewpoint, a live discussion among correspondents, aggrieved news subjects and members of a studio audience. The show has probed ABC's relations with business and the White House and has confronted broader questions of accuracy, responsibility and taste-often bluntly. In a segment last October, a woman...
...Yorker published in three successive issues Jonathan Schell's apocalyptic The Fate of the Earth. It escalated when The New Republic responded to Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved all out of control with an ABC Nightline special edition live from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government two nights ago that showed off satellite technology and an array of impressive guests...
...were as incautious as David Brinkley and Jim Wooten of ABC. On the air shortly before noon on election day, they voiced skepticism that the elections could be "clean and free" or "on the level," let alone meaningful. Surrounded by eager voters, Wooten said that the balloting "probably means more to Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig than it does to them." Seemingly unimpressed by the public's brave defiance of guerrilla threats, he added: "This voting . .. probably isn't going to be a significant chapter in El Salvadoran "history. A paragraph, perhaps, but nothing much more than that...
...ABC April...