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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). The Chicago Bears and World Champion Green Bay Packers limber up for the coming pro football season. From Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 16, 1968 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 16, 1968 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Atomic Medicine." What nuclear scientists at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratories are doing to harness the atom for medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 16, 1968 | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...only real news, the network obviously decided, was the shifting of votes between Front Runner Nixon and his opposition. But since there was very little "erosion," as possible vote shifts were invariably called, NBC viewers had to watch two days of model reporting in pursuit of a nonstory. CBS, on the other hand, tended to cover voting trends offscreen. Canvassing every single delegate, some since February, the network organized a running "CBS News Delegate Count." Since all that produced on the air was the latest totals,* CBS could devote more time to the circus side of the convention and diverting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: Medium over Tedium | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

Television, of course, suffers from the self-justification syndrome worse than any other group. While reporters have to fill a few pages a day with Convention material (which varies remarkably little from one newspaper to another), the network people--especially CBS and NBC--have committed themselves to feeding the monster as much as eight or nine hours a day with this stuff. This is a little like trying to write a full-length biography of a still-born baby. The networks end up interviewing delegates and candidates over and over again, asking them the same insipid questions, occasionally shifting...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: The Convention - A Glittering Bore | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

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