Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rooming house; the rifle and a ditty bag were found on the street; witnesses reported that the white car tore away at top speed. Amid the confusion, a mysterious radio call described a continuing police chase after the Mustang. The chase went one way, the Mustang another, and the broadcast later was discovered to have been a fake. The killer had been given his chance to escape...
Hard Lessons. Not all broadcasters were that responsible. As troops moved into Washington, radio and TV newsmen reported that "tanks" were rumbling down New Hampshire Avenue, when in fact they were simply personnel carriers. More recklessly, at the peak of the riot scare, rock-'n'-roll station WABC in Manhattan broadcast on-the-street interviews with Harlem agitators. Cried one: "We were planning to burn down your part of town anyway, but now we can take the whole thing this summer! I want to kill anybody I know who is against anything that's good...
Silvers said the program would probably be broadcast sometime next week...
Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC. (His 1,000th broadcast was what provoked the Guardian's praising with faint damns.) Cooke, 59, takes obvious delight in confounding the usual cliches about the U.S., in praising what is denounced, in minimizing what's exaggerated, in try ing to persuade his audience to give up the "easy joys of righteous indignation."He is a master of the unexpected...
...000th BBC broadcast, celebrated with considerable fanfare both in London and New York, Cooke broke his own rules and devoted his full 15 minutes to Viet Nam. Yet, as he remarked on the air, he would rather discuss the coming of spring or children at play. "Whenever things look the least bit good," he says, "I'd much rather talk about the American phenomenon of summer bachelors than Viet Nam." Because of this attitude, Cooke's critics charge him with reporting only the "smiling face of America," of "fiddling while Rome burns." To which Cooke once replied...