MediaWatch: July 1994
Table of Contents:
- MediaWatch: July 1994
- Christian Coalition Regularly Places on the Right, NAACP Almost Never on the Left
- NewsBites: Dumping on D'Amato
- Revolving Door: Price to Urban League
- Reporters Portray Religious Right as Extreme, Take Moderates' Side
- CBS Mourns Spies, Traitors
- Peggy on Prayer
- Dared to Call ABC News Liberal
- Janet Cooke Award: Liberal Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pays for Pro-Clinton Health Care Special
Revolving Door: Price to Urban League
The National Urban League has named a PBS station executive as its new President. In March, the League selected Hugh Price, Senior Vice President and Director of Production at WNET in New York for six years ending in 1988. As one of public television's major production facilities for all PBS stations, Price oversaw WNET's daily creation of numerous PBS public affairs programs, including The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
Reginald Brack Jr., Chairman of the League's Board of Trustees and also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Time Inc., declared that Price "brings experience, vision, creativity and leadership to the Urban League at a time when the African American community is in great need of an effective advocate for equal opportunities and a defender of hard-earned civil rights."
Into the Wilderness
The Wilderness Society has
enlisted two network radio veterans in its anti-property rights
efforts, which include further restrictions of logging, higher
mining rights fees and expansion of the endangered species list.
Brenda Box, National Journal reported in June, has come
aboard the national headquarters staff as Broadcast Director. An
anchor for Westwood One's NBC Radio and previously for the UPI Radio
network, Box will work with Jerry Greenberg, the Society's new
Assistant Public Affairs Director who will handle print media.
Greenberg's experience includes stints as a California-based
reporter for the Associated Press Radio Network and National
Public Radio.
A Wynning Team
Sharon McGill, a former ABC News producer,
has replaced Sandy Moore, another television veteran, as Press
Secretary to Congressman Al Wynn, a liberal Maryland Democrat.
In the late '80s, McGill served as an Associate Producer in
ABC's Washington bureau. Roll Call reported that during her four years with the network she worked on World News Tonight, This Week with David Brinkley and Nightline.
McGill's predecessor, Moore, had come to Wynn's office from a TV
reporting position at Hearst Broadcasting's Washington bureau....
On the GOP side, moderate Republican Amo Houghton of New York has signed up Chet Lunner, a Gannett and USA Today reporter, as his Press Secretary. A veteran of newspapers in New York and Maine, for the past few years he's been a general assignment reporter out of Washington for Gannett.
Today to Hillary to TBS
After 17 years as a reporter
for NBC News and two working for the Clintons, Heidi Schulman
served as co-writer and producer of A Century of Women, a
six-hour, three-night, early-June tour de force of American
feminist history on cable's TBS. Late last year Schulman signed a
one-year programming consultant deal with the U.S. Information
Agency. During the 1992 campaign she worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's
staff as a liaison with the Hollywood entertainment community.
Other than Phyllis Schlafly talking about the ERA and a woman
who spoke warmly of having been a '50s housewife, no one in the
Jane Fonda-narrated show articulated a traditional viewpoint.
The series also offered one-sided presentations on several
controversial topics, including Roe v. Wade and the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings.
