No constitutional rules for TV news coverage
The piece argues against proposed licensing standards for networks, noting news is a business driven by profit and judgment. It defends CBS cost cuts, observes competition from cable and local stations, and criticizes Eckart and Bryant for demanding a constitutional public-interest test. Newsrooms balance coverage with time and expense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CBS
Dan Rather
CBS News
Washington
Dennis E. Eckart
Dmentor
John Bryant
D-Texas
Hobart
Federal Communications Commission
Bryant
Nation Daily
Eckart
Radio days and the lure of the old magic box
A reflection on how radio shaped memory across generations from the Mousketeers to Soupy Sales and The Shadow. The piece notes Woody Allen's Radio Days, Keillor, and current revivals that replay Golden Age programs while acknowledging radio’s limits versus television, and the nostalgia for bygone times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E.L. Doctorow
Mr Keen
Bob and
Ray
Mr. Trace
Goodman Ace
Jane
Bill Stern
Howard Cosel
Gabriel Heatter
Atwater Kent
Woody Allen
Woody
Ricky
Mairzy Coats
Doctorow
Garrison Keillor
Proust
Madeleine
Iran Contra Fallout Tests Reaganism and Governance
Analysis argues the Iran contra affair damages Reagan’s image and raises questions about the presidency’s abilities. It weighs alternatives between illusion and reality, noting shifts in liberal fear and conservative confidence, while warning that the core issue is government inefficiency and potential policy paralysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Reagan
Congress
Soviet Union
Iran
Insider trading scandal fuels wall street critique
The author recalls a private insider trading episode involving his wife at a Midwest research facility and riffs on the Siegel-Boesky case. He argues merger mania benefits a few, while insiders dominate deals and salaries soar, undermining real wealth and national productivity. He warns internal threats to free enterprise may be greater than external fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Manhattan
East Side
Martin A. Siegel
Harvard Business School
New York Times
Siegel
Ivan Boesky
Soviet Union
Free America
Amerika
The Great American Jobs Machine under strain 1980s
A congressional study by Bluestone and Harrison finds 8 million new jobs from 1979 to 1984, yet 58 percent paid 7,000 dollars a year or less. It links deindustrialization to low wages, rising part-time work, and threatened living standards, urging retraining and worker protections amid offshore competition and new technology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nea
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Boston
Barry Bluestone
Bennett Harrison
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
America
BLS
Bluestone
Economic Policy Institute
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Walter Cronkite
By Melvin Maddocks
Christian Science Monitor
Poindexter
North
Regan
Ronald Reagan
Garry Wills
Wills
Lou Cannon
Washington Post
Apocts
William A. Rusher
Don Graff
Midwest
U.S
By Robert Walters
Canada
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