Word: cbs
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Mayor Daley produced his own version of Chicago--"The Strategy of Confrontation" -- starring his police department, and in it charged that the news media "responded with surprising naivete and were incredibly misused." Letters from angry citizens--almost unanimously critical of the networks--poured into the studios of NBC and CBS, and into the office of the FCC as well, prompting an investigation of the major networks' coverage...
Harry Reasoner reported on CBS's magazine-format "60 Minutes" that the letters CBS received ran 11 to one against the network's coverage. At NBC, the ratio was even larger...
...darkness and confusion, policemen used their nightsticks with great zeal, clubbing and injuring about 60 people. Seventeen of them were newsmen--there trying to cover it--including a CBS cameraman . . . an NBC cameraman and NBC News reporter John Evans...
...over America people came to the conclusion that the television networks--in particular NBC and CBS--had not been fair in reporting the events in Chicago.... Needless to say, it was not the role of television to side with the officials of the City of Chicago or the Chicago Police Department.... But, by the same token, it was not the role of television to be the ideological allies of the mob. It was not television's role to slant the news day after day in favor of the revolutionaries and against the elected representatives of the people and the police...
Despite bright expectations that PBL could avoid bickering and office politics, the lab became embroiled in the same sort of power struggles so notorious at the commercial networks. Executive Director Westin, a 39-year-old former CBS producer, was the hapless mediator. His staff members were fractious because they did not feel they had freedom enough to experiment. The managers of many of the 130-odd public TV stations that carry PBL protested, on the contrary, that the programming was too avant-garde for their audiences. As the lab seemed to flounder, the Editorial Policy Board, a group of outsiders...