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...British Broadcasting Corporation, which has first foreign rights to CBS Reports, hadn't decided to pick up Harvest of Shame. Dismayed at the damage that a European showing of the film could do to the image of America that he was now pledged to promote abroad, USIA Director Murrow called the BBC in a vain effort to suppress the show. Harvest of Shame, said Murrow, had been for domestic use only...
...disagreed. "To deny overseas subscribers the use of a news report," said a CBS spokesman, "would be inconsistent with basic principles of freedom of information." The show went on, and the British press, aware of Murrow's gag attempt, delightedly gave his role as narrator full billing. "Murrow's documentary," said the London Daily Herald, "blazed fiercely with his incomparable and indispensable indignation." Wrote Neville Randall in the London Daily Sketch: "I can only say that if Murrow builds up America as skillfully as he tore it to pieces last night, the propaganda war is as good...
...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
With this Murrow's former boss agreed. "All CBS Reports shows are scheduled to go into full syndication, including foreign," said Richard S. Salant, president of the network's subsidiary, CBS News, which televised the show. "Murrow knew that at the time and knows it now." By week's end Murrow seemed to agree with his critics. His transatlantic intervention, said he ruefully, was "both foolish and futile...
...surrealistic mishmash of "Eliot Ness, Together Ness and Pointless Ness," the season was one of unhappy comedy and unhealthy violence, of defections, dismissals and dismay. CBS lost its able News Division President Sig Mickelson. and ABC squeezed out veteran Newscaster John Daly. CBS's Edward R. Murrow took his tobacco habit to Washington as head of the U.S. Information Agency (see PRESS). Writer-Producer (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Robert Alan Aurthur quit TV with the parting shot: "Television may be unique in our free-enterprise system in that the harder one fights for a position in the marketplace...