Word: judgmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northshield probably has more to do with what comes out of the NBC news department than any other one man. His judgment determines exactly what Chet Huntley and David Brinkley read on the air every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce...
Shad Northshield undoubtedly feels vindicated in his judgment of what to cover and how to cover it in Chicago, now that the Walker Report on convention violence is public knowledge. Not that he really ever felt his decisions needed vindicating. And he seems confident that his newsmen will again worm their way into the hearts of NBC viewers once the news they must report becomes less noxious again. The only question is--will...
...invite to the party and just wrote his own and came anyway," he told the hostess. On his way out, he paused and mentioned to no one in particular that he was staying at the Pierre, where President-elect Nixon has established his Manhattan headquarters. "Nixon has very good judgment about hotels," he mused. "I hope he has as good judgment about running the country. Because he's the pilot now, and we're all on the same plane...
...deputy superintendent of police in charge of Grant Park took the opposite view. He said that the decision not to clear Grant Park was his own and a matter of judgment. When no citizens complained, he felt, it was sometimes better to ignore a technical law violation than to create a major problem. Grant Park was to have its share of disruptions, but they did not happen on schedule every night, as they did in Lincoln Park...
Well aware that parental concern about galloping pornography had powerful support in Washington, the Motion Picture Association of America last October announced a new voluntary system of rating pictures-the first in Hollywood history. "We don't want to legally pass judgment on art," explained M.P.A.A. President Jack Valenti. "What we're trying to do is educate the parents." All Mom and Dad have to learn is four letters: G, M, R and X. G is the code's symbol for suggested for general audiences; M: suggested for mature audiences; R: restricted-persons under 16 not admitted...