Word: networker
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Rolling Stones have been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad...
LeCorbeiller held posts with the French Ministry of Communications from 1929-39 and was technical and program director of the French National Broadcasting Network until he came to the United States in 1941 to escape Nazi-occupied France...
Well, maybe. But more cautious reporters would have avoided that limb by checking their facts a bit harder before going public. Network reporters who did seek confirmation of the rumors seemed not to hear when their interview subjects expressed doubts. In the end, it was NBC, which got scooped on the Ford boomlet, that had to backtrack least. David Brinkley congratulated his floor correspondents at the evening's end: "I think you were alone, alone in not being taken...
...fold this time. But the paucity of real news in Detroit raised questions about whether conventions should be covered so exhaustively. Fewer than half the homes watching TV last week were tuned to the convention; the top audience was Wednesday, when 54% were watching. Asked about this, network executives trot out Cronkite's dictum that the quadrennial spectacle is an important "civics lesson." Arledge of ABC, however, sees an end to the full nightly coverage. "It doesn't make any sense," he said. "It just shows how we can flex our muscles by putting our cameras in front...
...Western Europe and Latin America, where indexation has been much more widely practiced than in the U.S., governments and the public are increasingly disenchanted with COLAs. Israel maintains the world's most comprehensive network of cost of living adjustments, and that nation has soared into triple-digit inflation (see box). Brazil, which has been heavily indexed since 1964, is now backing away from the system in the face of 100% inflation. Last January the governments of both Denmark and The Netherlands refused to grant workers and welfare recipients the expected automatic increases in salaries and benefits. Says...