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Antiwar activists

Description: Three antiwar activists from different interest groups discuss what is wrong with Persian Gulf war and media coverage: military censorship, ignoring peace movement, failure to portray human element.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1991

Cardinal Law charges anti-Catholicism

Description: Cardinal Bernard Law suspects the media, particularly the Globe, are biased against the Catholic Church.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/02/1991

Children's television

Description: Peggy Charren of Action for Children's Television urges more educational content + fewer commercials in children's programming. Three 9 year olds tell why they enjoy tv.Cartoons,Capt. Kangaroo,Sesame Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/23/1991

Final TOCN show

Description: Final program of The Ten O'Clock News. Flowers on anchor desk. Chris Lydon and Carmen Fields say their farewells. Montage of TOCN staff. Staff hugs on set during credits. Stories on Charlestown High School prom, interview with Kevin White, using the word "condom" on TV, and examination of the Big Bang Theory, which includes interviews with Philip Morrison, Margaret Geller, and Eric Lerner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/30/1991

Journalism students on war coverage

Description: Carmen Fields interviews three Northeastern journalism students on the coverage of the Persian Gulf war. Two students are impressed with the immediacy of the coverage provided by television (CNN and the networks), but the other thinks that it is "not as in-depth as it could get." Fields contrasts the commitment to "the people's right to know" of Watergate-era journalists with the students' views regarding the importance of censorship to protect national security and the lives of individual soldiers. The students also discuss the missing CBS news crew led by Bob Simon, and question the news team's decision to report in a war zone without a military escort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1991

Peter Arnett

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

Post war update

Description: Remaining POWs released, greeted by Schwarzkopf. Colin Powell says only a few Americans are MIA. Iraq expels foreign press. John Major visits British troops in Kuwait. Arab leaders agree on security plan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1991

Press restrictions controversy

Description: Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media and Ed Turner of CNN comment on press restrictions in covering war. Is Peter Arnett conveying Iraqi propaganda? Andrew Jones urges awareness of human beings in war.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1991

Southeast Asians in Lowell

Description: As many as 25,000 Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese make up Southeast Asian community in Lowell. Mayor Richard Howe tells how this burdens schools & services. Cambodian newscast on cable tv.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1991

Store 24 ads, condoms, WCVB

Description: WCVB refuses to air Store 24 ad mentioning condoms among other goods. Mark Jurkowitz comments. Bedroom scene from "Santa Barbara" soap opera. Condom display in Store 24. Clip from ad.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/30/1991