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...Deceptive Gloss." From the often lackadaisical FCC came the strongest pronouncement to date. Said FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer: "A failure to distinguish between the freedom to express . . . ideas and the indiscriminate hawking of wares . . . has brought the advertising and broadcasting industries to the brink of strict Government controls...
Reaching behind the widely used notion that all entertainment is built on artful deception, Doerfer warned that programs which "contain a deceptive gloss above the accepted tolerances of dramatic license" might be outlawed in the next session of Congress, since shows that lure viewers unethically are using unfair means to outdo the sponsor's commercial competitors. "If the industry does not successfully survive that crisis," concluded Chairman Doerfer, "it has no one to blame but itself...
...cause of the paralyzing slowness of decisions is the fact that the agencies are two-headed, quasi-judicial bodies, thus are not only involved in fact-finding but must also judge the facts they find. The paradox was pointed up last month at congressional hearings by FCC Chairman John Doerfer, who remarked that as an administrator he should be out talking to people, but as a judge he should not. Under the fact-finding process, every citizen has the right to be heard before the agencies-and thousands use it. Lawyers have made an art of dragging out a case...
Schwartz's firing had long been inevitable. During his six months in Washington he had bullied both witnesses and Congressmen (TIME, Feb. 17). He had got into a mixup on his own expense accounts at the same time that he was accusing FCC Chairman John Charles Doerfer of chiseling the Government on expanses. He had leaked secret subcommittee papers to newsmen even while denouncing subcommittee members for doing the same thing; under Schwartz's taunting, subcommittee members swore under oath, in one of history's silliest congressional scenes, that they had not leaked a confidential memo...
...Counsel Schwartz behaved as if accepting $100 honorariums was a crime ranking close to arson. He hectored Doerfer so unmercifully that the American Civil Liberties Union protested and the Washington Post and Times Herald, no friend of the Eisenhower Administration, rapped Schwartz's brass knuckles...