Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio rarely wields any lance more deadly than a squirt of toothpaste. The mere thought of radio talking back to the press gives most newsmen a belly laugh. Yet for the last two weeks CBS has done just that-it has criticized the press with such spirit and point that it has got right under the thick, ink-smudged hide of several Manhattan dailies...
...program for New Yorkers, CBS Views the Press (WCBS, Sat. 6:15-6:30 p.m. E.D.T.), is aired in the well-known, orange-crush tones of Newscaster Don Hollenbeck. Hollenbeck also writes the script with the aid of the CBS news staff and his own 20 years of newspaper, wire-service and radio reporting experience...
...Herald Tribune's Columnist John Crosby ("It took courage . . . zeal and discretion"). Four Manhattan dailies gave it the silent treatment. (Snarled one editor: "The papers could do a better job on radio any week.") But the public liked it; more than 350 letters piled into CBS the first week. Encouraged, Hollenbeck promised soon to turn a "detached, noncommittal eye" on wire services and newsmagazines, as well as on the newspapers' columnists, comic and editorial pages, slanted news, twisted headlines and bent prose. Said CBS's delighted Edward R. Murrow: "I think we'll get a mass...
Studio One (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Elliot Paul's mystery story about the Lost Generation's highjinks in low Paris dives...
Operation Nightmare (Mon. 7:30 p.m., CBS). United Jewish Appeal program, starring Al Jolson...