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...about alcoholism or politics. But he attracts top-level guests from all fields, and his program has a high and merited national popularity. By last week, however, he had irritated one man too many times. Tired of fighting with Susskind over the weekly choice of subjects and guests, Bennet Korn-president of Metropolitan Broadcasting's WNEW-TV, where Open End originates-fired...
...This flibbertygibbet Korn is a real creep," says Susskind, "a squingy little man, a cultural illiterate. He has no high plane except the plane of his forehead. He is one of the great finks of this world. He is the kind of cipher that hurts our business. This is an infringement of freedom of speech. It is censorship...
...whom Susskind thinks will dismiss him is Bennett Korn, owner and manager of WNEW in New York. "He is an ugly meddler," Susskind said of his present employer, and fearing a misquote, he repeated, "an ugly meddler in the process of free speech...
...Susskind tells the story, Korn began taking credit for all of Open End when, in fact, he only controlled its finances. Then he sought to encroach upon the choice of personnel and subject matter. According to the embittered moderator, Korn has "reverted to censorship at a time when broadcasting is showing new freedom and responsibility. It is particularly witless since Korn has an application pending before the F.C.C. to take over a station in Los Angeles...
Programs devoted to smoking and cancer, birth control, Norman Mailer, Sol Hurok and student political activity have been arbitrarily canceled; now Korn insists that James Baldwin and Harry Belafonte will not suffice for a show on the American Negro. Since Susskind refuses to enlarge the panel, Korn has called a press conference at which their association will probably be "severed with deep regret...