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...analogies were false in the article on the fairness of the NBC documentary on pensions...
Innis and Shockley have debated once, last December, on NBC's Tomorrow television show. The pair was scheduled to debate at Princeton University in December, but Innis announced three hours before the debate that he would not participate because the Princeton administration would not allow non-students and non-university press to attend...
...disagrees in its commission report: "The issue is not whether NBC or any other licensee or network is free to deal with an issue as it sees fit, but whether it may constitutionally be required to present the views of others who may see the issue from a different perspective." It says that NBC is not obliged to air an hour program on happy pensioners, only to offer defenders of the system the "reasonable opportunity" to speak demanded by the fairness doctrine. As an FCC spokesman puts it: "It's a simple fairness-doctrine case...
...fact, invoking the fairness doctrine is rarely simple. The NBC documentary certainly was not "balanced," but should it have been? It dramatically showed that, for a significant number of Americans, pensions do not deliver the incomes that were promised. This undisputed fact hardly seems to require the pro-and-con treatment that networks must legally give such clearly controversial subjects as abortion, legalized gambling or school busing...
...interest. "A fire is reported," says Reuven Frank, "but not the houses that didn't burn." Should network producers like Frank decide that they must use news time for programs, on unburnt houses, they will be apt to avoid tough subjects entirely. The eventual settlement of the NBC case is certain to have enormous impact on the future of TV and radio reporting...