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...Buchwald isn't funny all the time. In fact, when he isn't in front of a large audience, he can be remarkably unfunny. Boring, even...
These observations are delivered with a mischievous air on 60 Minutes, the top-rated CBS newsmagazine, and hi a thrice-weekly column syndicated to more than 100 newspapers. Rooney, 60, covers the commonplace, leaving wars and statecraft to more conventional colleagues. "Andy is our Russell Baker, our Art Buchwald," says Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes. "He is a cross between Charles Kuralt and H.L. Mencken...
...expected of television. Because it can shrink the world with a satellite signal, people tend to think of it as a total journalistic service. "We are not," says Chancellor. "We could be on three hours a night and could not produce a Russell Baker column or an Art Buchwald piece or a Jeff MacNelly cartoon. Television is good at the transmission of experience. Print is better at the transmission of facts...
...right, but not simply because Khomeini manipulated the press: the Ayatullah has been able to take noisy advantage of a bizarre news brownout, a month of "self-restraint" unparalleled in American life. Johnny Carson confesses on TV that he is having a harder time with his opening monologues; Art Buchwald, who gets most of his humor columns out of topical events, hasn't done a single column about Iran. Even presidential candidates have been biting their tongues about Iran, except for Connally's early macho outburst and Teddy Kennedy's intemperate denunciation of the Shah. In this...
...Buchwald, humorist, at Georgetown University: "I know many of you are bitter at our generation for using all of the oil reserves. But I would like to remind you of one thing. It was our oil and our gas, and we could do anything we wanted with it. Your generation has to find its own oil and gas reserves...