Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impact on the convention was emphasized from the start, when Paul Butler surprised everybody by banging the gavel on time. And in a sense, TV itself could be blamed for much of the tedium. Almost every speaker, painfully conscious of the camera's eye, addressed himself to "you who are watching TV." The galluses, the sweat, the unguarded gestures, the open shirts and bold-patterned ties were gone for good...
When the lights went up at the Democratic National Convention one night last week after the screening of a campaign film. National Chairman Paul Mulholland Butler stepped to the rostrum and spat out a challenge. Trembling with rage, Democratic Chief Butler snapped that "one of the major networks has failed to keep its commitment to present this documentary film to the American people." By pointedly thanking NBC and ABC for showing the movie, he put the finger on CBS as the offender...
...rose from the convention floor, some delegates stood, shook their fists at the CBS booth above and behind the rostrum and shouted, "Throw 'em out!" (Said one CBS reporter who was on the floor: "I thought they were going to smash our cameras".) Later, still fuming, toplofty Paul Butler charged "absolute sabotage," demanded that CBS carry the film with advance notice of its showing...
...Mere Conduits." Butler's blast caught CBS President Frank Stanton sitting in a convention box alongside Harry Truman's, sent him rushing to his network's backstage headquarters. There Sig Mickelson, CBS vice president in charge of the coverage, was already getting up the explanation: CBS had made no commitment to show the half-hour film, actually showed the last six minutes of it after carrying four brief interviews with politicos, fill-ins by four of its commentators, and a one-minute commercial. The network, said Mickelson mildly, was simply "exercising our news judgment" in what...
...wire to his good personal friend Paul Butler, Stanton backed his staff. "I am shocked by your inflammatory attack," said the CBS chief. "Those who make the news cannot, in a free society, dictate to broadcasters, as part of the free press, to what extent, where, and how they shall cover the news. Television and radio ... are not mere conduits which must carry everything which the newsmaker demands...