Word: networkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...continued to stir up diplomatic storms last week. The "dramatized documentary," which re-enacts the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover in 1977 for adultery, had already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over...
...pose a security risk. Their reasoning: if an epidemic broke out in the West Bank, it could spread into Israel; thus Israel must continue to run the clinics. Similarly, according to Khalil, the Israelis asserted that the Palestinians could not be allowed to operate their own radio-TV broadcasting network for security reasons. While these stories are obviously one-sided, they do show the multitude of matters that must be settled in defining what Palestinian autonomy means...
Turner's idea of a 24-hour cable news network will supply a smaller and more serious news audience with better news coverage, he said...
...could get an audience that is smaller and more interested [than the network audience] then I could end up where I always wanted to be all my life," he said...
...Calling network news a "superb form of journalism," Schorr said a half-hour news show tends to encourage the extreme elements in society, not giving moderates a chance, because extremism is better entertainment. Network news "must in one way or another share the values of television, which are entertainment values," he added...