Word: av
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vegetable." ABC Anchor Man Frank Reynolds was quoted by Agnew as saying, "You can't expunge all your private convictions," and during the 1968 campaign charged Richard Nixon with a suppressed "natural instinct to smash the enemy with a club or go after him with a meat ax." Av Westin, executive producer of the ABC evening news, puts the industry's case in its best possible light. "My politics are more conservative than Vice President Agnew would have people believe, but that doesn't matter. My job is to keep my politics and those of others...
...experiment in public-interest television, began its second year on an encouragingly upbeat note (TIME, Dec. 6). Birth and Death, PBL's cinéma vérité documentary on natural childbirth and death by cancer, won critical acclaim, and the staff was jubilant. Said Executive Director Av (Avram) Westin: "This year we go for broke...
...beginning, the lab's 96 staffers were infused with a save-the-world fervor. "PBL," promised a national ad campaign, "will use television as it's never been used before." But 25 Sunday-night telecasts later, PBL Executive Director Av Westin confessed despondently: "We took some deserved lumps for our brash we'll-show-you attitude. The year had its successes and failures, but it was not totally satisfactory from anybody's point of view...
Arriving at Manhattan's NBC news studios, leased for the premiere of the Public Broadcast Laboratory (TIME, Nov. 10), Executive Director Av Westin last week found a note left by the regular occupants. "The moneymen of Huntley-Brinkley," the message read, "hope you do-gooders do good. Good luck!" PBL will need some luck; it didn't do so good...
...purpose of PBL, says Executive Director Av Westin, is "to stir things up, to challenge the status quo of both commercial and educational television...