Word: broadcasting
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...augment reporting done on the scene earlier, Scott monitored rival claims broadcast by Amman radio and by fedayeen outlets in Damascus and Baghdad. His efforts were supplemented by the contributions of both news and analysis from Correspondents James Bell, John Shaw and Wilton Wynn in Rome and from Marlin Levin in Jerusalem and Monica Dehn in London. Drawing on State Department sources in Washington, Diplomatic Correspondents Herman Nickel and B. William Mader were able to supply important assessments...
...eyewitness account from Moscow." Fact of the matter, according to a charge brought by the Federal Communications Commission last week, was that Max Putzel was a professor of German literature who happened to be a cousin of the then WPIX news producer and who, at the time of the broadcast, was not in Moscow but back home in Gary...
...Evil. Outsiders might assume that the very laying of such charges by the FCC could lead to the suspension of the broadcasting license of WPIX, a subsidiary of the New York Daily News. In fact, even if the charges are proved, the FCC may not take any action at all. The commission has the authority to revoke radio-TV licenses in such cases, and, every three years, it can choose not to renew the license of a station that has failed to "serve the public interest." But, as broadcast reformers have long pointed out disgustedly, the commission has not rejected...
...Yorkers that includes Harry Belafonte and is headed by former NBC Vice President Lawrence K. Grossman. Defending themselves against Forum, WPIX executives have maintained that they were unaware of the news doctoring. As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news." But since the Forum challenge, WPIX has doubled its news staff and air time and rushed to schedule community shows like Black Pride, Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jewish Dimension and Aprenda Ingles (Learn English). Many stations around the country, frightened by the WPIX and other challenges, have also upgraded their local...
...takes its name from a quote attributed to F.G. Bonfils, the late co-founder of the Denver Post: "There is no hope for the satisfied man." The group behind TUM is clearly not satisfied with the overall performance of newspapers and broadcast stations in their state. But, unlike some journalism critics, they seem determined to shun high-pitched polemics for a low-keyed, well-written analysis of the news media's ills...