Word: networking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...seem such an obvious prescription -- build housing, and then help people hold on to it. But it has taken a long time to strip homeless policy of its mythology. For years, whenever the congressional committees or the network-news programs took up the cause, they would call Robert Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, and put in an order for an intact white family recently evicted from a Norman Rockwell painting -- people, they said, with whom others could identify. Yet in cities like New York, such families account for less than 10% of the homeless population...
Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, has always had to shoulder a big share of the network news load. A few years ago, each of the three broadcast networks had thriving bureaus there -- nearly a dozen reporters among them, all scrambling to cover most of mid-America between the Alleghenies and the Rockies...
...hard job then, it is all but impossible now. Two weeks ago, CBS confirmed that it was shutting down its Chicago bureau, leaving a single reporter to handle the entire region from an office at the network's local affiliate. ABC is cutting its Chicago office from eight people to two by the end of the year. Only NBC's bureau is remaining intact -- with one correspondent, down from five...
...cold winds of Chicago are spreading across the network landscape. ABC has closed its Dallas bureau, scaled back its office in Boston and reduced its presence in Central America. NBC is laying off 20 news people by the end of the year. CBS, which is making the severest cuts, has axed at least 60 members of its news staff...
...latest round of belt tightening, however, has an odd new twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late...