Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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-EDITING REALITY. More worrisome than the influence of individual commentators is the effect that can be achieved by the selection of film or tape footage. In this way TV producers can more or less edit reality. Television, even more than other media, has a bias for action and excitement. A...
After the Chicago convention, however, Cronkite developed at least one gloomy streak in the form of a premonition of censorship. "People are beginning," he said, "to mistake us for the stories we're covering." Those who were charging TV journalists with biased reporting were "doing so for political reasons...
FRANK, Reuven, 48, president of NBC News. Born in Montreal, graduated from the City College of New York, 1942 (B.S.); Columbia, 1947 (M.S.). Reporter, Newark Evening News, 1947-49; night city editor, 1949-50. Joined NBC News in 1950; news editor, Camel News Caravan, 1951-54; producer, political convention coverage...
The march, however, was more than just an effort to stop the war. It was the first political convention of the subculture. As such, it was an astounding success. It gave one a sense of solidarity and a feeling of belonging; and a sense of overriding futility.
Certainly, very few of the crowd would probably be willing to take the consequences of being true revolutionaries in America now-bullets rather than tear gas. But they showed more radical political sophistication in this situation than in similar recent actions. The issues on which they based the confrontation-the...