Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Daley of Chicago, one who had the courage to employ his authority where so many others have failed...
Beautiful Cops. At first, Mayor Richard Daley had praise for the report. "Overall," said Daley, "it is an excellent study." He confined his criticism to the report's seven-page summary, which ticked off incident after incident of police near-hysteria and expressed astonishment that few policemen had been disciplined for misbehavior. Taken by itself, the summary could "mislead the public," Datey warned...
...Mayor Daley produced his own version of Chicago--"The Strategy of Confrontation" -- starring his police department, and in it charged that the news media "responded with surprising naivete and were incredibly misused." Letters from angry citizens--almost unanimously critical of the networks--poured into the studios of NBC and CBS, and into the office of the FCC as well, prompting an investigation of the major networks' coverage...
...outside the amphitheatre consisted of long, uninterrupted film sequences shot understandably when there was something happening -- when the clashes between police and protesters reached their height. The same films were aired over and over again whenever Chet or David referred back to the events, as after Senator Ribicoff blasted Mayor Daley for running a police state. Consequently, both the intensity and the frequency of the clashes may have seemed greater than they were...
This direct affront to their city was probably enough to anger most proud Chicagoans. Policemen and viewers, however, were upset by the alleged lack of objectivity in reports like Perkins'. From them arose the charges of slanting the news. Mayor Daley claimed the media had been unfair by not giving the taunting, obscenity-shouting protesters equal time in their coverage. Television, he charged, had shown only his policemen's reaction, and not the provocations they were reacting...