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THERE must be millions of Americans who have no idea who said "Good night, sweet prince," but who know full well who says "Good night, Chet" six evenings a week. He is, of course, that ironic (the cliché is "wry") fellow who has co-anchored the Huntley-Brinkley Report since its premiere in 1956. With Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington, the pair have made their dinner-hour news show the biggest revenue producer on NBC, except for the prime-time movies. That is undoubtedly one reason why the network made no point of the fact that...
...digs out stories and checks nuances by phone with his old Washington sources, which are, as ever, at the Cabinet and committee-chairman level. But his true vocation is news writing, and he is indisputably the best in television. CBS's Walter Cronkite edits the items he reads. Chet Huntley will write an item or two a night that he feels strongly about. To Brinkley, unhappiness is having to read someone else's copy. Even when he does the whole show by himself, he taps out the script in the last hour or two before air time...
Northshield probably has more to do with what comes out of the NBC news department than any other one man. His judgment determines exactly what Chet Huntley and David Brinkley read on the air every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce...
...result was that coverage of events outside the amphitheatre consisted of long, uninterrupted film sequences shot understandably when there was something happening -- when the clashes between police and protesters reached their height. The same films were aired over and over again whenever Chet or David referred back to the events, as after Senator Ribicoff blasted Mayor Daley for running a police state. Consequently, both the intensity and the frequency of the clashes may have seemed greater than they were...
Despite its apparent poverty, the FCC does have some legal authority over the men in the limousines-and occasionally exercises it. In a recent letter, the FCC sharply rebuked the National Broadcasting Company for not informing viewers that Chet Huntley had substantial cattle interests when he went on the air to criticize tough new federal rules on meat inspection. In another peremptory communication, the commission asked the three major networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-to respond within 20 days to "hundreds of complaints" of "bias" in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...