Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Including four Americans: Photographer Sean Flynn, who was captured in April 1970 while on assignment for TIME; CBS Cameraman Dana Stone; UPl's Terry Reynolds; and NBC Correspondent Welles Hangen...
...current dispute centers on an NBC documentary called Pensions: The Broken Promise. Aired in September 1972, the program was a bleak expose of failings in privately administered group-pension plans. Workers told of losing all or most of their pension income through a variety of misfortunes: pre-retirement dismissals, company closings or mergers, the collapse of pension funds because of mismanagement. Correspondent Edwin Newman, who was co-author of the script with NBC Producer David Schmerler, noted near the end of the hour-long broadcast that "there are many good" pension plans. But his conclusion was downbeat: "The situation...
Shining Example. Most reviewers praised NBC for its journalistic enterprise. (The show later received a George Foster Peabody Award as a "shining example of constructive and superlative investigative reporting.") But Accuracy In Media, a nonprofit, nonpartisan (though generally conservative) group in Washington that acts as a self-appointed watchdog on press performance, protested. AIM Executive Secretary Abraham H. Kalish, a former professor at the U.S. Defense Intelligence School, formally complained to the FCC that the NBC program gave "a grotesquely distorted picture" of the private pension systems in the U.S. He contended that AIM'S monitoring of NBC programs...
...same day as the Peabody Award, an FCC staff report declared that NBC had not complied with the fairness doctrine. The ruling did not challenge the program's accuracy but charged that NBC had failed to provide "reasonable opportunity" for the airing of positive views on the subject. NBC asked for a review of the report by the full FCC membership. Last December the commission supported (5-0) its staffs decision and ordered NBC to come up with some counterpoint to its documentary. At that point, NBC took its appeal to court...
...Other Side. NBC is obviously worried that the FCC decision, if upheld, will doom investigative reporting on the air. "There is no documentary," network lawyers argue, "dealing with and exposing any social problem to which the reasoning of the [FCC] staff opinion could not apply." Lawyer Floyd Abrams, who is representing NBC, says that the FCC "is moving into the newsroom more than ever before." Charges Executive Producer Reuven Frank, NBC news president at the time the documentary was shown: "If this were a rule, it would mean that television news must never examine a problem in American life without...