Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Block, whose frequent quarry was the jowly, bushy-browed Richard Nixon: "My cartoons are opinion pieces and are recognized as such. My opinion." To honor the Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist, the National Press Club gave him its Fourth Estate Award, which has gone in the past to such heavies as CBS's Walter Cronkite and the New York Times's James Reston. The 68-year-old "Herblock," as he signs his name, says he plans to keep at it for "20 or 30 more years." Now that he doesn't have Nixon around any more, he is concentrating...
...casual viewer, the appeal of ABC's Tuesday night hits may seem elusive at first. In many ways the shows look like well produced rehashes of the hoariest old TV formats. Unlike the Norman Lear sitcoms on CBS, ABC's shows do not pretend to deal with topical issues, and their premises are brazenly retrograde. Happy Days copies Dobie Gillis; Three's Company recalls Petticoat Junction and Love That Bob. Laverne and Shirley's slapstick antics- usually built around wild schemes to earn money or meet men-are often indistinguishable from the adventures of Lucy...
...accidents or other tragedies, or with their relatives: "Avoid them." Exception: "When they throw light on what happened or drive home a point which might help avoid future tragedies ... Do not interview, or attempt to interview, a person who appears to be in a state of shock." (The CBS code does not point a finger at anyone else, but one of the most shameless recent TV exploitations of distraught relatives was Geraldo Rivera's ABC interviews in the Son of Sam murders...
...Terrorists: "Except in the most compelling circumstances, and then only with the approval of [Richard Salant] the president of CBS News ... there should be no live coverage of the terrorist/kidnaper since we may fall into the trap of providing an unedited platform...
Ever wonder what happened between CBS and Daniel Schorr? When Schorr leaked to the Village Voice a secret House Intelligence report, he became the center of a celebrated fuss; the rhetoric of lofty principle filled the air. These principles, on both sides, now seem a little tattier in Schorr's telling. When CBS decided that Schorr must go, its lawyers in February 1976 agreed to pay Schorr more than two years' salary, and severance besides. Only after Schorr had assented to a well-paid firing did CBS agree with him that perhaps such a deal might prejudice Schorr...