Word: midgley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, it was the pictures, not the words, that counted most. Les Midgley, who for some years produced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, is convinced that had the space shuttle Challenger flown only a few miles farther and then exploded off-camera, the story would have created far less of a sensation. The image of white plumes scattering in a giant Rorschach pattern is now engraved on every American's brainpan. Endless repetition did it: television believes that something shown only once has not been seen...