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Television news is often accused of turning a bland eye on controversy, and activist critics yearn for the days when the late Edward R. Murrow savaged Joseph McCarthy and crusaded for migrant farm workers. No such criticism could be lodged against the NBC documentary What Price Health. Broadcast last December, the program attacked the high cost of medical care in the U.S., portrayed individual victims of the system in dramatic terms, and lobbied for adoption of a broad national health-insurance scheme...
...crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into the personal lives of renowned families such as Edward R. Murrow provided in his "Person-to-Person" series, or the televised tragedies of political assassinations, the airwaves have been empty of families that look, sound and "feel" like real people...
...Washington Post, though praising the import of the documentary, published two more lengthy editorials, again challenging the film's production techniques and accuracy. Not surprisingly, CBS News President Richard Salant saw the Government attack as a Washington witch hunt reminiscent of the prevailing atmosphere during the Ed Murrow-Joe McCarthy confrontation in 1954, and dramatically pictured himself as an "electronic John Peter Zenger...
Even on documentaries, where time is not a problem, transposition of sequence, as in the colonel's speech on the Pentagon show, is against standing orders at all networks. David Buksbaum, ABC news producer, who learned his trade under Ed Murrow and Fred Friendly at CBS, says: "When we edit, it never gets out of sequence. And if someone would edit out of sequence, the guy ought to be fired...
...like a Richard Nixon. Or, more frightening, the End is in the eyes of a street kid asking for change, in the shaking hands of your friend crashing on exam-period speed, in the magazine covers that report the battle of the hemline with the fervor of Edwin R. Murrow covering the blitz...