Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although NBC announced the appointment of a "vice president in charge of standards and practices,'' it was still CBS that talked most loudly and earnestly about reforms. Frank Stanton explicitly forbade his flock to accept payola.* CBS top brass also issued a decree to its staff that seemed...
Truth Shows. Even on CBS, the giveaways still had a fighting chance, all tucked into a clause that said schlock was taboo "except where reasonably necessary and natural." Art Linkletter, whose CBS show House Party gives away about $3,000 worth of prizes a week, promptly announced: "If we can...
One good result of the television scandals came to light: a growing demand for news and public affairs programs, dubbed "truth shows." NBC announced a weekly public affairs program in prime evening time on topics ranging from alcoholism to the summit. Plans were jelling for TV Critic John Crosby to...
* It may be a lean year for newsmen, too. Both NBC and CBS have decided that this year there would be no Christmas gifts to the press.
The dialogue awakened cafe scents of strong smoke, dry cognac and refracted thought ("Suppose you die and find out that the dead are only the living playing at being dead")And the story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was...