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AuthorFRANCK, THOMAS
AuthorFRANGOS, GEORGE
AuthorFrank, Bernard
AuthorFRANK, M. Z.
AuthorFrank, Paul Z.
AuthorFRANK, REUEVEN
AuthorFRANK, REUVEN
Paid articleExcerpts (January 2006)
Reuven Frank was the NL's "On Television" columnist from June 1992 until his death at age 85 on February 5, 2006. He twice served as president of NBC News, won seven Emmys for documentaries he...
Paid articleOn Television (November 2005)
On Television Cogs in the News Machine By Reuven Frank WHEN A TELEVISION network changes its news anchor, newspapers invariably declare that an era has ended. The person who delivers...
Paid articleOn Television (September 2005)
On Television A Loser's Game By Reuven Frank A popular cartoon, available on wallpaper, cocktail napkins and an animated screen saver, has a small fish being devoured by a slightly...
Paid articleVaudeville with Newsreels (July 2005)
On Television Vaudeville with Newsreels By Reuven Frank ? ? April 20, 1939, David Sarnoff proclaimed television by opening the RCA pavilion at the New York World's Fair with the words,...
Paid articleTrouble in the House of Murrow (May 2005)
On Television Trouble in the House of Murrow By Reuven Frank WITH ANY LUCK, this could be your last exposure to the saga of Dan Rather, the mythic broadcasting hero brought down by a...
Paid articleNews Without Controversy (March 2005)
On Television News Without Controversy By Reuven Frank WHAT LINGERS from last December's Indian Ocean tsunami is the memory of survivors' eyes as they stared into television cameras....
Paid articlePulling Up Anchors (February 2005)
On Television Pulling Up Anchors By Reuven Frank IN 1965, a consumer research survey found that Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, coanchors of NBC's nightly TV newscast, were, to quote the...
Paid articleEvolution of a 'Great Idea' (November 2004)
On Television Evolution of a 'Great Idea' By Reuven Frank Early IN 1960, an advertising agency guy I knew casually breezed into my office at NBC News, where I was then a producer, and...
Paid articleOn Television (September 2004)
On Television Redesigning the News By Reuven Frank I yearn for a local newscast with an anchor who is bald, a coanchor who is brunette going on gray, a sports guy who speaks softly, and a...
Paid articleON TELEVISION (July 2004)
On Television Playing What If with World War II By Reuven Frank If Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had to function in today's media atmosphere, the adverse public opinion...
Paid articleOn Television (May 2004)
On Television Innovation's Hidden Risks By Reuven Frank ALTHOUGH strongly denied and indeed probably untrue, rumor had it that morning television doyenne Katie Couric's hair was cut in...
Paid articleOn Television (March 2004)
On Television When Conventions Mattered By Reuven Frank A few things in life are certain. One is that when the broadcast networks announce how many fewer hours they will devote to the...
Paid articleON TELEVISION (January 2004)
On Television The Generals and the Journalists By Reuven Frank Inside every war there is another war, between the generals and the journalists. At stake is who gets to inform the American...
Paid article'I Have Here in My Hand a List' (November 2003)
On Television 'I Have Here in My Hand a List...' By Reuven Frank One day in the early 1950s, I got word to see my boss, the head of NBC News. When I arrived at his office he was on the...
Paid articlePolitics Ain't Beanbag (September 2003)
On Television Politics Ain't Beanbag By Reuven Frank In simpler times, before toys became mechanized, then motorized, then computerized, a mother would sew a little sack from a spare...
Paid articleOn Television (July 2003)
On Television Our Newest Journalism By Reuven Frank Imagine for a moment that you are a contemporary American Joseph Goebbels, and your job is not to formulate, but to disseminate,...
Paid articleWar in Real Time (May 2003)
On Television War in Real Time By Reuven Frank Almost 2500 years ago, the young soldier Pheidippides ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to tell the citizens of Athens their army had...
Paid articleHow News Became Entertainment (March 2003)
On Television How News Became Entertainment By Reuven Frank No PART of broadcasting is in as parlous a state as news. While rightthinking people decry the most secretive Administration...
Paid articleWhat if No one is Watching (January 2003)
On Television What if No One Is Watching? By Reuven Frank A broadcasting network is not a tangible object; it is a contractual arrangement. A corporation holding a license from the...
Paid articleWhen a Critic Counted (November 2002)
On Television When a Critic Counted By Reuven Frank BEFORE THERE WAS Color there was black and white. Before there was videotape there was film. Before there were Tom Brokaw and Dan...
Paid articleNews About News (September 2002)
On Television News About News By Reuven Frank An old-timer once told me how in the fall of either 1940 or '41, with World War II raging in Europe but the United States not yet a...
Paid articleAnchors Away? (July 2002)
On Television Anchors Away? By Reuven Frank SINCE network television began, on May 1,1948,11 Presidents have sat in the White House. During that time, there have been seven evening news...
Paid articleOn Television (May 2002)
On Television Eliminating the Elderly By Reuven Frank I'm a realist and I know that if you had aprogram on Nightline and the series on the eastern Congo, for example, up against West Wing or...
Paid articleOn Television (March 2002)
On Television When News Was the Star By Reuven Frank IN a better world, all-news cable TV channels would come on when there was news and stay dark when there wasn't. That way viewers...
Paid articleOn Television (November 2001)
On Television TV in a Time of War By Reuven Frank On October 15 the head of BBC News agreed to send some chaps round to Downing Street to discuss war coverage and the use of video clips of...
Paid articleOn Television (September 2001)
On Teleyision 'We Report. You Decide.' By Reuven Frank Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed. That he is grown so great? "Julius Caesar," Act I, Scene II When in late July the Federal...
Paid articleOn Television (July 2001)
On Television Days of Discontent By Reuven Frank Everything has changed; everything is changing. After World War II, when American television first began to attract an audience, its...
Paid articleOn Television (May 2001)
On Television Death as Entertainment By Reuven Frank On March 2 Warden Harley G. Lappin of the Federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, warned the 60,000 residents of that small,...
Paid articleOn Television (March 2001)
On Television The Shifting Shapes of TV News By Reuven Frank IMAGES have now dominated words for the better part of a century. For many, World War II lasted from Hitler slapping his...
Paid articleOn Television (November 2000)
On Television Future Unclear By Reuven Frank A funny thing happened on the way to the future. It slowed down. Before last summer's national political conventions, newspapers were replete...
Paid articleOn Television (September 2000)
On Television A Matter of Survival By Reuven Frank There can be few undertakings less promising than eliciting sympathy for the high panjandrums of network television. But their current...
Paid articleOn Television (July 2000)
On Television Party Time By Reuven Frank A man named Robert C. Doyle was on the floor of the hall setting up three bulky cameras to cover an interviewer, his subject and the rows upon rows...
Paid articleOn Television (May 2000)
On Television The Final Hours By Reuven Frank No one knows yet what the next mass communication and entertainment medium will be called, will look like, will provide. Growing out of...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1999)
On Television PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY By Reuven Frank From Plato to Wittgenstein, Western philosophy has unremittingly wrestled with the concept of reality. It has struggled to resolve the...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1999)
On Television A SLIGHT CASE OF MERGER By Reuven Frank Many Reasons were given for the $37.3 billion merger of CBS with Viacom in early September. Improving television was not one of...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1999)
On Television THE PARADOX OF PROFITS VS. VIEWERS By Reuven Frank Every Spring, newspapers break out in stories about a paradox facing the television industry. It is one that has...
Paid articleOn Television (April 1999)
On Television DEMOCRACY DOTCOM By Reuven Frank The novelties foreseen bymedia pundits pondering next year's Presidential contest are an enhanced role for allnews cable networks and a...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1999)
On Television AFTER MONICA, WHO? By Reuven Frank The day after the United States Senate voted not to remove President Bill Clinton from office, ratings for the allnews cable network MSNBC...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1999)
On Television CURTAINS FOR THE TRIOPOLY By Reuven Frank After more than two decades of unbridled soothsaying, gloomy foreboding and wild surmise, the shape of what television will soon be...
Paid articleBeyond the Cringe (November 1998)
On Television BEYOND THE CRINGE By Reuven Frank The President squirmed as he answered. Over 20 million Americans watched and cringed. Again, television was making history. Monday,...
Paid articleThe Mamoulioan Factor (September 1998)
On Television THE MAMOULIAN FACTOR By Reuven Frank When radio was still young, it depended a lot on live broadcasts of string quartets or visiting speakers done from hotel dining rooms. Home...
Paid articleThe Newtorks' Fight for Survival (June 1998)
On Television THE NETWORKSFIGHT FOR SURVIVAL By Reuven Frank It is hard to remember when the springtime ritual of the television networks announcing their upcoming entertainment...
Paid articleThe Price is Wrong (April 1998)
On Television THE PRICE IS WRONG By Reuven Frank American commercial television as we know it began on May 1,1948. A half century later, it is going through the early stages of a typical...
Paid articleOh, What A Tangled Web (February 1998)
On Television OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB By Reuven Frank In time for last year's holiday season, Henry Holt and Company published a volume the size and format of a coffeetable book but quite...
Paid articleAfter Seinfeld (January 1998)
On Television AFTER SEINFELD By Reuven Frank Last year ended forebodingly for the National Broadcasting Company. Jerry Seinfeld, the standup comedian from Queens whose eponymous halfhour...
Paid articleDocumenting the Documentary (November 1997)
On Television DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTARY By Reuven Frank On Thursday, September 25, the ABC News magazine 20/20 included a 10-minute report by Peter Jennings, an occasional contributor,...
Paid articleThere Is No Local News (March 1997)
On Television THERE IS NO LOCAL NEWS By Reuven Frank History may after all include more than one "date which will live in infamy." Take September 20, 1995, for instance, a day when the...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1996)
On Television LET'S END POLITICAL ADS ON TV BY REUVEN FRANK In theory, the United States elects a President every four years. In fact, the United States is always electing a President. Soon after...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1996)
On Television NOTHING WORTH REPORTING BY REUVEN FRANK ALTHOUGH it has been years since a national political convention produced any news the networks persist in covenng them This past August...
Paid articleOn Television (June 1996)
OnTelevision GET YOUR FREE TV TIME HERE BY REUVEN FRANK AFTER to-ing and fro-ing, and hemming and hawing, the "big three" television networks have responded to a full-page advertisement in the...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1996)
OnTelevision MISSING THE STORY BY REUVEN FRANK TELEVISION is fame. Fame is fleeting. When this year's record snows finally melted in the Northeast, they washed away hours of video images of Phil...
Paid articleOn Television (October 1995)
OnTelevision UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES BY REUVEN FRANK IN AUGUST the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed its 25-year-old Prime Time Access Rule. The decision consigned to the dustbin...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1995)
On Television IS IT GOOD FOR NEWS? BY REUVEN FRANK UNTIL THE dizzying Week of the Billion Dollar Mergers, this summer's principal broadcasting phenomenon was the earliest departure ever of...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1995)
On Television CONNIE CHUNG AT THE CIRCUS BY REUVEN FRANK ON THE SAME recent weekend, fate dealt unkindly with Patrick Ewing and Connie Chung. Ewing, an authentic sports hero, tried in the...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1995)
On Television TURNING KNOWLEDGE INTO PROFIT BY REUVEN FRANK LAST JANUARY 26, a Chinese-made rocket carrying an American-made communications satellite smoothly completed its predawn liftoff from...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1995)
OnTelevision CELEBRITY JOURNALISM BY REUVEN FRANK NEWT GINGRICH'S mother telling Connie Chung about her son using the same word to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton that, more than a decade...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1994)
On Television THE TRIUMPH OF SLEAZE BY REUVEN FRANK PRECISELY on schedule, as they always have right after Election Day, news bigwigs from broadcasting and print began gathering to tell each...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1994)
On Television 'QUIZ SHOW' FOLLIES BY REUVEN FRANK ERRORS BECOME immortal. An axiom of the publicity trade holds that once even small mistakes get into print, they enter permanent files and...
Paid articleOn Television (August 1994)
On Television LAUGHTER AT THE LOWER DEPTHS BY REUVEN FRANK WHEN I AGREED to occupy this space, it was with the proviso that I wouldn't review programs. It is one thing to spend all your waking...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1994)
On Television AN EVENING OF PERFECT TV BY REUVEN FRANK MENCKEN HAS been dead since 1956, Gogol since 1852, Swift since 1745, so there was no one around to properly portray what happened on...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1994)
On TElevision FOR NOW IT'S STILL THE OLD NETWORKS BY REUVEN FRANK THE HERALDED demise of the major networks has apparently been postponed again. First signs of new life could be discerned as...
Paid articleOn Television (March 1994)
On Television BRAND NAME NEWS BY REUVEN FRANK DIANE SAWYER is a former Junior Miss America who worked for Ron Ziegler in the Nixon White House press office, followed Richard M. Nixon into exile...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1994)
On Television THE CBS FOOTBALL FUMBLE BY REUVEN FRANK TELEVISION'S end-of-an-era du jour for January 23 was the CBS broadcast of Dallas trouncing San Francisco and winning the right to play in...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1993)
On Television FAIRNESS IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER BY REUVEN FRANK THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE, now in the news again, was the means for denying First Amendment protection to broadcasting. Although...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1993)
On Television LOCALIZING NETWORK NEWS BY REUVEN FRANK It is the consensus among people one talks to that something bad has happened to network news. They are vague, but angry. Some complain...
Paid articleOn Television (July 1993)
On Television ONE MORE SEASON BY REUVEN FRANK The rite of spring called the New TV Season has not varied for a half-century. After months of ideas being bandied between network program...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1993)
On Television YESTERDAY'S SURE THING BY REUVEN FRANK Currently there are seven weekly network TV news magazines on the air. By the end of the year there will be more than a dozen. Network...
Paid articleOn Television (May 1993)
On Television THE CAMERA NEVER LIES BY REUVEN FRANK The firing of Michael G. Gartner as president of NBC News opened a long, and largely uninformed, discussion of deception in television...
Paid articleOn Television (January 1993)
On Television HITTING THE BEACH IN MOGADISHU BY REUVEN FRANK The tumult and the shouting had not yet died, nor the Captains and the Kings departed, when the anchormen went home from...
Paid articleOn Television (November 1992)
On Television PLAYING THE SWEEPS BY REUVEN FRANK November 12,1992, the back page of the first section of the New York Times was filled by an advertisement asking, in screaming type: "IF A...
Paid articleOn Television (September 1992)
On Television ANOTHER SEASON By REUVEN FRANK From the New York Times, July 15, 1992: "The stew of news-magazine programs, so-called reality programs that mix actual events with 're-creations,'...
Paid articleRaunch on the Rise (September 1992)
On Television RAUNCH ON THE RISE BY REUVEN FRANK on June 19, in a large but elegant hotel conference room at a Colorado ski resort, a 36-year-old Harvard MBA named Stephen Chao made a...
Paid articleTalk is Cheapest (June 1992)
On Television TALK IS CHEAPEST BY REUVEN FRANK N Next January H. Ross Perot will become America's first talk-show President. The campaign begun on CNN's Larry King Live, where he launched his...
Paid articleAnecdotes from the Press Club Bar (May 1979)
Anecdotes from the Press Club Bar_ The Powers That Be By David Halberstam Knopf. 771 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Reuven Frank President, NBC News, 1968-73 This book aims to tell how the major...
Paid articleProgramming the Presidential Debates (October 1971)
Perspectives PROGRAMMING THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES BY REUVEN FRANK The question raised when Richard Salant, the president of CBS News, walked out of a meeting called by the League of Women Voters...
Paid articleBeating the High Price of Politics (August 1974)
BEATING THE HIGH PRICE OF POLITICS BY REUVEN FRANK Over the years it has become very American to argue violently about whether or not some policy should be adopted that in fact is already general...
Paid articleThe Case for TV Journalism (March 1968)
WASHINGTON-U.S.A. The Kennedy Gamble By Roger Kingsbury Washington Robert Kennedy's miscalculations began with his assumption that Senator Eugene McCarthy's well known dislike of political...
AuthorFrank, Waldo
AuthorFRANKE, A. H. RASKIN,SEYMOUR L. WOLFBEIN,THOMAS W. GAVETT, RICHARD C. WILCOCK AND WALTER H.
AuthorFRANKEL, CHARLES
AuthorFRANKEL, HASKEL
AuthorFRANKEL, MARVIN E.
AuthorFRANKEL, MAX
AuthorFRANKEL, THEODORE
AuthorFRANKLIN, AUSTIN W.
AuthorFraser, Hugh Russell
AuthorFRASER, NICHOLAS
AuthorFraser, Robert
AuthorFrazer, Robert
AuthorFREED, BRUCE
AuthorFreedman, Morris
AuthorFREEMAN, LUCY
AuthorFREIDBERG, MAURICE
AuthorFREIDEL, FRANK
AuthorFREIDMAN, JOSEPH J.
AuthorFreiligrath, Ferdinand
AuthorFrey, John P.
AuthorFRIED, JOHN
AuthorFRIED, JOHN J.
AuthorFRIED, JOSEPH P.
AuthorFRIED, RICHARD
AuthorFRIEDBERG, MAURICE
AuthorFRIEDENBERG, DANIEL M.
AuthorFRIEDL, JOSEPH
AuthorFriedman, Esther
AuthorFriedman, S. H.
AuthorFriedman, Samuel
AuthorFriedman, Samuel H.
AuthorFRIEDRICH, CARL J .
AuthorFriedrich, Ernest
AuthorFrien, Horace S.
AuthorFries, Horace S.
AuthorFrigenbaum, Wm. M.
AuthorFROMM, ERICH
AuthorFruchter, By Henry
AuthorFruchter, Heary
AuthorFruchter, Henry
AuthorFRUMKIN, HAROLD
AuthorFRY, VARIAN
AuthorFRYDMAN, ANNE
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