Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Campaign '96 rolled around, Taylor shocked his editors by standing down, leaving the business in order to lobby it, and persuading the Pew Charitable Trusts to fund his new role as a "journalism reformer." Working with ex-CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite and other industry and government pooh-bahs, he set out to talk the networks into giving the candidates free airtime--anywhere from two to five minutes a night in prime time. "I would hope it could unfold as kind of a running debate, with Clinton responding to what Dole said last night and back again," he says...
...programming. ABC extended an hour of prime time in the last week of the campaign, inviting the candidates to sit in the same room and have it out, free from journalistic moderation. NBC said it would seek to have the candidates on evening news shows such as Dateline NBC. CBS made a vague promise of "free, unfiltered access" to viewers through its news programs. CNN anted up with five minutes a week for four weeks on Inside Politics. And Fox's Rupert Murdoch last year opened the bidding with an hour of prime time on election...
...movie Twister has sparked an upsurge in destructo-videos. Forces of Nature, a CBS special two weeks ago, featured grabby footage of tornadoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. pbs's Savage Skies spent four hours last week chronicling nature's bad temper. More than two dozen severe-weather videos are on the market--available by mail order, in stores and online--including several from the Weather Channel (Target Tornado) and National Geographic (Nature's Fury!) as well as smaller outfits like Goodtimes Home Video (Twister: Fury on the Plains). Tornado!, a Fox TV movie that aired last week...
WASHINGTON: Justice Department officials arrested two Georgia men on charges of constructing pipe bombs but denied a CBS report that the suspects were plotting to set off explosives to disrupt the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. "This is a couple of militia types who built things that can be made into pipe bombs, but we have no information of any plan to use them for the Olympics," said one law enforcement official. "The Olympics only came up once during the investigation when at one of their meetings one member said if a bomb goes off at the Olympics they would...
...Today show did an interview with Jessica, her father and her flight instructor. CBS's overnight broadcast did a five-minute interview with Jessica and her dad in Cheyenne the morning before her last flight. The day before the flight, ABC gave Lloyd a Hi8 video camera, so he could "document the flight," an ABC spokeswoman said...