Word: stepchild
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Tesh and Connie Sellecca, who appear in an infomercial for a series of videotapes that promise to improve your romantic $ relationships.) Says Steve Howard, president of Williams Television Time, an infomercial-produc tion company: "In the old days you had to beat down the door as the ugly stepchild of advertising. Now celebrities are flocking...
...paper's fevered push for national and international recognition has inevitably made local reporting something of a stepchild. Events far from home are sometimes covered with more energy and objectivity than those in the Times's own backyard. Last year, for instance, the Times made headlines nationwide when its premier profile writer, Bella Stumbo, quoted Washington Mayor Marion Barry making disparaging remarks about Jesse Jackson and threatening to cut off his political enemies "at the kneecaps." Yet a year earlier the paper was slow to run stories on Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley's questionable financial dealings...