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Surefire Sidebars. In his harsh assessment, Marshall even suggests that some of his younger colleagues do not display a war reporter's proper enthusiasm for lengthy bouts of bloody and dangerous combat. Too many U.S. newsmen, Marshall complains, are like the TV crews who "want blood on the moon every night." They make brief searches for "tangents and sidebars." The offbeat yarns that attract them "fall into several familiar patterns, none of which promises a beat any longer, though collectively they are beaten to death. Any demonstration or riot is surefire copy. Then there is the thing-that-went...
Three weeks ago, the Committee on Free Press and Fair Trial published a thick report which recommended the establishment of specific minimum standards in the administration of criminal justice. The proposals seem harsh. They place limitations on statements made by attorneys and police involved in the case, and on the copy a newspaper may publish during the trial...
...Viet Nam was all about husky, well-equipped Marines burning down an entire village, leveling 150 homes "in retaliation for a burst of gunfire." If there were Viet Cong around, Safer said, "they were long gone." And the Marines, he intimated, were wreaking a kind of harsh vengeance as the day's operation burned homes, "wounded three women, killed one baby, wounded one Marine and netted four prisoners-four old men who could not answer questions put to them in English. Four old men who had no idea what an ID card...
...accusation is harsh. Viet Nam is TV's first war; the medium's mistakes...
...about a machine. Sensitive young Leonard Cog (Moni Buegeleisen) resists the tyranny of the Brain Cells and their Gestapo, the Ball-bearings (led by Musical Director Liz Robbins), to convert the world-machine from harsh angles to flowing curves through sabotage and quiet confidence. All this requires an awfully large chunk of willing suspension of disbelief. If Leonard's weltanschauung is "smooth, round and beautifully spherical" why can't he and the "well-rounded" ball-bearings live in peace...