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A Times piece inside says the show that will run the interview, the popular state-owned news magazine "Daily Focus," resembles "60 Minutes" in that it features hard-hitting investigations (mostly of local, not national officials) unthinkable just a few years ago.
American Media's chief executive, David Pecker, seems to hew to the latter interpretation, because he told the Times that Altman has done nothing to interfere with the "hard-hitting" stuff in the Enquirer and the Star about the Clintons.
“The Brundtland report celebrated by many at Globe '90, while hard-hitting in its analysis of the global environmental crisis, is profoundly shallow in its prescriptions.”
Incidentally, that CNNfn guy maintained the station's usual hard-hitting standards by concluding their conversation this way: "On a personal note, I'd like to say that for the last four Thanksgivings we've done your balsamic glazed onions, and they were fantastic."
My only regret is that the article wasn't even more hard-hitting.