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Visiting Fellows scheduled for next year include Jack Anderson, newspaper columnist; Elmo Zumwalt, former Chief of Naval Operations; David Halberstam '55, journalist; and Leonard Woodcock, President of the United Auto Workers, Jonathan D. Low, executive assistant to the director, said yesterday...
...David Halberstam '55, in his excellent series of articles in Atlantic last year, "CBS: The Power and the Profits," exposes this anxiety in a revealing passage...
...Halberstam writes that things got worse as Nixon carried out a more systematic campaign to intimidate television network heads. Instant analyses disappeared and comment was flattened. This reaction was predictable, given the balance sheet. Television's profits are huge; few corporate heads are willing to jeopardize those profits for the sake of hard-hitting commentary and in-depth reporting...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...
...Halberstam, 41, estimates he will tap 600 people before he is done. Aggressive and sometimes abrasive, he uses a technique he calls "bracketing, like they do in the artillery. You lob a shell over here, then one closer to the other side. Then you narrow in." The final product, which he works on between treks on the college lecture circuit, will also include an examination of radio, the computer industry, newspapers and magazines. Halberstam's conclusion: along with TV, they control information, and "information is power...