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new movie, particularly a big movie,
they will invite 50 to 100 reporters
from TV, newspapers and magazines
across the country to preview it, pay-
ing their way to New York or Los
Angeles. Reporters watch the movie
and then get five minutes with the star
or director under very controlled cir-
cumstances.
"The studio controls the cameras
and the tapes so what you get is studio
manipulation of the coverage of its
movies," Rose said. "It's a big ethical
question as to whether any reporter
should be accepting free trips and all
the rest when they're covering some-
thing that the studio is paying for.
"We will not go on the junkets, but
we will do a story about the junkets to
show how the studios manipulate the
press."
Willow Bay, formerly co-anchor of
"Good Morning America/Sunday," is
doing a piece on focus groups, panels
established to evaluate shows, and the
effects of their opinions.
In one case, Robert Altman's most
recent film, The Gingerbread Man,
met with criticism from a focus group,
and the ending was changed. Bay talks
to Altman about his furious reaction
to this trend.
There will be fun segments, too
— an interview with composer- enter-
tainer Burt Bacharach, who is becom-
ing popular with the young crowd,
and a segment on a small film compa-
ny that's developing a cult following.
"I'd like to think that every piece
we do, even the fun pieces, will have
people walking away and saying, 'I
didn't know that,"' Rose said. "I'm not
saying that our main mission is to
teach, but I think journalism, at its
best, illuminates and informs."
Rose was informed about broad-
casting by both his parents. His moth-
er, Sondra Gair, was a radio soap
opera actress in the '30s, '40s and '50s
and went on to do various types of
radio shows in the '60s and '70s. His
father, Hildy Rose, was a radio talk-
show host.
"I used to stand in front of the
mirror when I was 10 and pretend that
a big pen was a microphone," Rose
recalled. "I'd practice my signoffs."
In 1993, Rose did a "Prime Time
Live" segment about his mother.
"We didn't know when we did that
story that she was developing breast
cancer, and she died a year later," Rose
revealed. "Of all the stories I've done
over the years, that's the story that
people keep coming back to and
telling me they loved.
"It was really gratifying because my
mother was a big radio celebrity in
Chicago, which meant that her voice
was well recognized but nobody recog-
nized her.
"Once my story appeared on televi-
sion, she was being recognized in the
supermarket and when she went out
to dinner, and it was a whole new
thing for her.
"She was such a modest person,
and she never expected it. It really was
very exciting, and it was kind of like a
mitzvah that I was able to do for her
without even realizing it."
Rose believes he learns a lot each
time he is assigned a new story. "I
really got an education on urban prob-
lems when I was in Detroit," said
Rose, who was quite distressed when
he was accused of distorting the facts
about the city. "I liked Detroit and
was fascinated by the whole place.
[Our report] was honest. We turned
our camera on, and it was all there for
us.
"Subsequent to that, a very close
friend of mine came back to Detroit
to get married, and they had a beauti-
ful wedding on Belle Isle. It was spec-
tacular."
Rose's first trip to Israel was as a
correspondent. His coverage brought a
duPont-Columbia University Award.
"I did half of one show looking at
the [Mideast] situation through the
eyes of an Israeli [looking at] the
birth and growth of Israel," he
recalled. "The other half of the show
was done by another correspondent
looking at it from the eyes of a Pales-
tinian.
"That was one of many [experiences]
that taught me how deeply imbedded
the anger and the hatred are on both
sides, and that was something that
struck me as a Jew and as a reporter."
Since reporting about his highly
personal experiences when undergoing
treatment for cancer, in his case radia-
tion therapy for a brain tumor, Rose is
grateful for his recovery.
"I was unlucky to get sick, but I
was extremely lucky to get better," the
three-time Emmy winner said. "I'm
feeling great today. My wife is preg-
nant with our first babies, twins.
"A few years ago, I wasn't sure I was
going to be surviving too long, and
here I am healthy and about to
become a father."
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