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Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 223 ~ 38 of 52
He later embarked on expectation-defying crusades in London and New York, soon becoming a global voice for Christianity.
Health problems gradually slowed Graham. In 1995 his son William Franklin Graham III, then 43, was designated the ministry’s leader.
Billy Graham’s wife died in 2007 at age 87. Graham will be buried next to her at the Billy Graham Museum and Library in Charlotte. There was no immediate word on other funeral arrangements.
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Online: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: http://www.billygraham.org
Billy Graham Center archives: http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/archhp1.html
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Zoll reported from New York. Retired Associated Press Religion Writer Richard N. Ostling contributed to
this report. ___
This story has been amended to delete a reference to Graham baptizing Eisenhower at the White House because it could not be veri ed.
The perils of live microphones tripping up NBC’s Olympics By DAVID BAUDER, AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Every two years, a miracle of technology unfolds: televising and streaming an Olym- pics with miles of cable, hundreds of cameras and producers who make split-second decisions on which pictures to beam halfway around the world.
So it’s with a certain irony that when NBC has had problems in Pyeongchang, it has all been very simple: one person, one live microphone and some 20 million critics. The network has apologized — or not — for a handful of gaffes seen as insults by South Koreans, by the Dutch, by women athletes, by ski fans.
Live television and the risks that it brings are nothing new. The climate surrounding it is.
“Live TV used to be eeting,” says Brett Kurland, a broadcast professor and director of sports programs at Arizona State University. “Something would happen, and you would either see it or you didn’t. Now if you say something that someone doesn’t like, they’ll cut it into a GIF and post it on the Internet. Before you know it, it blows up on your Twitter feed.”
He adds: “Everyone is aware that you’re just a screen grab away from infamy.”
NBC’s rst problem came from an unexpected source, an expert on Asia assigned to provide context about the host country during the opening ceremony. Joshua Cooper Ramo has impeccable credentials — educated at the University of Chicago, a former Time magazine foreign editor, now a top executive at former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s consulting rm.
When pictures of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared on the screen, Ramo noted that Japan occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945, “but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural, technological and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation.”
That angered many South Koreans who caught wind of Ramo’s remark and resented their country’s treatment by the occupying force. NBC quickly apologized. Ramo hasn’t been heard from since on the network, although NBC said he was not contracted to work beyond the opening ceremony.
NBC has also delved little so far into the culture of South Korea the way it has with other Olympic sites, although a heavy schedule of live events in prime time is a factor, too.
Katie Couric, brought back by NBC for the opening ceremony, was the next to take heat. NBC’s telecast of that ceremony wasn’t televised in the Netherlands but, again, social media quickly made the Dutch aware of comments she had made.
She was discussing the Dutch tradition of excellence in speedskating, and said it stemmed from skating being an important mode of transportation in Amsterdam when canals freeze and people skate from place to place. That left her open to ridicule by some in the Netherlands, who pointed out that the canals rarely freeze anymore and, besides, they have cars now.