Description: Chronicle of Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson's claim of harassment in Patriots locker room, and the media follow-up of the controversy. Olson in locker room. Empty Sullivan Stadium. Patriots on field.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1990
Description: BNN local cable channel 3 celebrates ten years of community access programming. Hubert Jessup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/12/1989
Description: A look at programming produced by local cable television stations.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/23/1987
Description: WCVB disputes rights of exclusive marathon coverage purchased by WBZ from the Boston Athletic Association (BAA). Boston Marathon Credential Committee working. Runners and TV cameras filming. Interview with James Coppersmith of WCVB on why the station is suing for coverage rights, since the Boston Marathon is a public news event. Quote from WBZ news director Stan Hopkins. Interviews with runners. Discussion of the changes in the Boston Marathon over the last ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1990
Description: Commentary on media coverage of so-called national war on drugs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1990
Description: Commentary on the media's effect on John Silber's controversial language.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1990
Description: National news programs focus on the Dukakis campaign's (i.e. John Sasso's) indiscretion causing demise of Biden candidacy. Predict damage to Dukakis' status.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1987
Description: Newsroom of South Middlesex News. VDTs (video display terminals) outnumber electric typewriters. Wire machines. Paste-up artists crop photos with exacto knife, lay out pages. Several people smoke as they work. Computer punch tape in ribbons on floor. Man working at phototypesetting machine. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: Editor Bob Moore at South Middlesex News shows how copy is typed, formatted and corrected on VDT monitor, new electronic equipment to the newsroom. Close-up of hands on computer keyboard. He inserts numerical codes for type size, headline size, column width. “Makes for better typing…no more proofreaders…reporters love it…it lifts them psychologically.” Paper has been largely eliminated from the newsroom. Composing room jobs reduced and people retrained. Cost savings put toward buying the technology and enhancing the editorial staff. Cartoonist working in pen and ink; his drawings posted on the wall. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978
Description: CNN reporter Peter Arnett talks about his reception by print journalists, the Persian Gulf war, Kurdish refugees, the meaning of victory.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/11/1991