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...spine of the newsmagazine concept that TIME introduced is the presentation of news in clearly defined departments. Like any vertebrate structure, our format has had to be flexible. The editors, responding to the trend of events, have periodically dropped or merged old departments and started new ones. AERONAUTICS was part of the first issue, later was incorporated into a department called TRANSPORT, which eventually was absorbed by BUSINESS. BEHAVIOR and ENVIRONMENT appeared for the first time in 1969, when these subjects became too important to be reported satisfactorily within other sections...
...present all the economic, political and human aspects of this story as cohesively as possible, we decided to modify our format. Our Business and Nation staffs collaborated on a special section that leads this issue. The project was jointly supervised by Nation Editor Jason McManus and Business Editor Marshall Loeb. The editors called in reports from 21 domestic and foreign TIME bureaus, in addition to consulting our own Board of Economists. In New York, a team of seven writers and ten reporter-researchers worked on the section...
...good reason. The actors do little acting. The film does not track along a story line. Rather, it eases by in jazz format, an initial statement of theme followed by elaborations and improvisations. Sound-track impressions boom the eardrums with rock, shrieks, sirens, hopped-up choppers and gunfire. The dialogue between black characters stays so close to ghetto speech that white sound men advised Van Peebles to redo it; they thought his recorder must have been out of whack. One speech is delivered partly from the toilet, with appropriate break-wind accompaniment...
...Frank McGee. NBC News President Reuven Frank insists that the change has nothing to do with ratings. (Since 1968, two years before Huntley left, CBS has had a small but respectable lead in the evening-news audience. The standings have not changed appreciably with the Chancellor-Brinkley-McGee format...
Satchel for a Solo. By Frank's account, Hugh Downs, host of the Today show, was indirectly the catalyst for the news shakeup. Downs wanted a break to relax, write and lecture. "We would have kept going under the old format for another year," says Frank, but Downs was adamant about quitting. "I coaxed Frank McGee," Frank admits. McGee takes over Today in October. Brinkley, meanwhile, will assume the job of "commentator" for NBC News. Next month David Brinkley's Journal will be seen as a separate segment of most of the nightly newscasts, NBC's riposte...