Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...second installment of Lyndon Johnson's televised memoirs was broadcast by CBS last week. One of the more knowing viewers of L.B.J.'s talk with Walter Cronkite was TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey, who covered the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson years. Here is Sidey's assessment, weighing Johnson's recollections against those...
...torrent of abuse that hit the CRIMSON and the professional newspapers last spring. Radio, by its nature, is perfectly adapted to presenting large amounts of undigested fact to the audience; a newspaper, just as naturally, has to condense and exercise some judgment. It's hard to fault a live broadcast of a Faculty meeting, but a news writer will have to choose one event as the most important-and instantly antagonize half his readers...
Agnew's attacks on the press and broadcast news received more serious attention from Moyers. Like others he flunked Agnew for accuracy. But at the same time he chided newsmen who accused Agnew of intimidation. Moyers also warned both sides of the fence about the camaraderie in Washington among those who make the news and those who report it. "This tacit allegiance between the government and the press," Moyers declared, "is far more harmful to the public than the adversary relationship...
...games would be taped and shown on a special television network-either free or paid, it does not matter. Continuous broadcast of pro games on this channel would enable the fans to see all the games he wants to see, instead of being frustrated by the arbitrary sports programming choices of the current network moguls. The nation's voracious appetite for pro football would thus, for the first time in history, stand a chance of being satisfied...
...shower. The doctors' young houseboy is encouraged to beat the Korean draft by accelerating his heartbeat with Speed. The pious Major Burns (Robert Duvall) is driven into a strait-jacket when his bed is bugged during a furtive love scene with Hot Lips. Their jubilant moans are broadcast on the camp's public-address system...