Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT of August 26, NBC's camera crew was sent to Lincoln Park, where the first real confrontation between police and protesters was expected to take place. The demonstrators were determined to spend the night there; the police had been instructed to run them...
...Veteran NBC correspondent Jack Perkins' narrative of NBC's films of what happened read like this...
...darkness and confusion, policemen used their nightsticks with great zeal, clubbing and injuring about 60 people. Seventeen of them were newsmen--there trying to cover it--including a CBS cameraman . . . an NBC cameraman and NBC News reporter John Evans...
...over America people came to the conclusion that the television networks--in particular NBC and CBS--had not been fair in reporting the events in Chicago.... Needless to say, it was not the role of television to side with the officials of the City of Chicago or the Chicago Police Department.... But, by the same token, it was not the role of television to be the ideological allies of the mob. It was not television's role to slant the news day after day in favor of the revolutionaries and against the elected representatives of the people and the police...
...judgment of what to cover and how to cover it in Chicago, now that the Walker Report on convention violence is public knowledge. Not that he really ever felt his decisions needed vindicating. And he seems confident that his newsmen will again worm their way into the hearts of NBC viewers once the news they must report becomes less noxious again. The only question is--will...