They are paying Fox a premium price to advertise on the World Series and persuading viewers to pay attention to commercial messages is harder than ever.

"Wide Angle" persuades viewers that the Italian prime minister is bad news for the press.

As for Friday's commentary, Sugar Ray Leonard seemed to be trying too hard to persuade viewers that Holmes had a real chance.

New England Cable News is facing the tough task of persuading viewers to turn in.

Several of the artists seem determined to persuade viewers of an equivalence between the icons of the Third Reich and those of global capitalism.

That ally was Hoover, whose abuses of power and secret files on enemies could persuade viewers of the worst motives.

It was one of several times that Mr. Ferrer tried to persuade viewers that the mayor was a Bush lackey.

He was quoted as wanting stars to appear on the programme as this is what he thought would persuade viewers to tune-in.

The truth-teller, he has to persuade viewers, is rarely a matinee idol: remember Socrates.