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...familiar, somewhat pompous figure with the familiar, somewhat pompous voice rose up before his fellows one day last week and, in his measured prose, indicted the whole breed. "I have decided," said Edward Murrow at the convention of the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago, "to express my concern about what I believe to be happening to radio and television . . . If there are any historians about 50 or a hundred years from now and there should be preserved the Kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white or color...
Deploring the rampages of "Hollywood Indians," singing commercials in the midst of news programs, the shallow, five-minute news spots that leave no room for the "why," the networks' fear of the controversial, Murrow went on: "One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television...
...House of Commons, they said, but hardly a man to appeal to the people. He looked too sedately Edwardian; people did not know what to make of him. Then, partly as a result of his U.S. visit and the widespread rebroadcast of a humanizing TV appearance with Ed Murrow, the British public-and Tory leaders too-began to see their chief in a new light...
Small World (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). Edward (See It Now) Murrow begins his new series, an effort to bring the globe's great characters into the world's living rooms. The first show's cast: Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, Thomas E. Dewey...
...budgets to other media. Series-type programs (which require a chunk of network time each week) are being dropped in favor of one-shot spectaculars (which occupy only 60-90 minutes a month). Some of TV's most prestigious shows have got the ax, including Edward R. Murrow's See It Now, Climax!, Wide, Wide World, Suspicion, Kraft Theater...