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DIED. JERRY NACHMAN, 57, feisty New York City newsman; of gallbladder cancer; in Hoboken, N.J. He brought his quick wit, tabloid aggressiveness and (formerly) sizable girth to top news jobs at New York's WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, the New York Post and most recently MSNBC, where he was editor in chief as well as the host of a weeknight talk show...
...advance. "It fuzzes the line between the critic and the publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy. Now alleged reviewers...
Nick Fisher, a camera operator for WCBS-TV, said there were "maybe hundreds" of rescue workers and volunteers caring for the injured...
Many blacks are apparently convinced that it is. When the New York Times and WCBS-TV News conducted a poll on attitudes toward the justice system last January, only 28% of the blacks questioned felt that the courts are evenhanded toward white and black defendants. Such sentiments may reflect, in part, black discontent with the handling of several recent racially charged events in New York City, including the Howard Beach and Bernhard Goetz cases. These impressions also point to a deep-rooted distrust of the system, engendered by years of legally sanctioned injustice against blacks and other minorities...
McKinnon told the Daily News that he quit his job as Sharpton's aide five weeks ago because he could not "live with all those lies" the Brawley advisers were concocting. Interviewed later on New York's WCBS-TV, he repeated his charges while hooked up to a lie detector. The polygraph, said the operator, indicated that McKinnon was telling the truth. According to McKinnon, the Brawley advisers did not really believe her story of abduction and rape. He said that when he personally offered to investigate, they showed no interest. "I don't care about no facts," he quoted...