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...make for engrossing ?news?? In its broadest definition, news is what you didn?t know you didn?t know until someone told you. And news - of high and medium culture, of people who have achieved and survived, of all things great and silly - is what you?ll find on ?CBS Sunday Morning...
...Late last month, to a modest amount of media applause, ?CBS SM? turned 25. Host Charles Osgood and his crew threw themselves a nostalgic little party, opening the video scrapbook on the January 25 broadcast and whisking the dust from some venerable stories to air them again. Twenty-five in TV years is ancient; only a liver-spotted handful of weekly shows have lasted that long. But ?CBS SM? is, by nature, older than that - forever looking back, finding resonance in an anniversary or obituary, as if it were the memory bank for the Alzheimer?s generation...
...also antique in its fidelity to the original CBS news creed: smart, crisp and hold the bullshit. Nowhere else on the network, and few places on any other, are the verities of Golden Age TV journalism upheld with such light poise, perhaps because nowhere else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX...
...show was old at birth, when Charles Kuralt, the first host, began the inaugural program by declaring, ?Here starts something new... a Sunday newspaper that comes in a tube.? Something new for television, not for newspapers and magazines. ?CBS SM? has its closest equivalent, and direct inspiration in the Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late...
...Temperamentally, the two shows are bookends. ?60 Minutes? says all?s wrong with the world; ?CBS Sunday Morning? says darn it if there isn?t a lot right with it. One show is curmudgeonly, the other celebratory. One rakes muck, the other finds a pony there...