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...Nesson realizes that television often doesn't afford the time needed for intellectual investigation. "I thought about the issues on the CBS program for three months beforehand," he says. The ABC and CBS offers might have lessened such preparation time to one week...
More important, though, Nesson also believes that "there comes a time when a person can cease to be a full functioning member of an institution." At that point he adds. "You have to decide if you want your institution to be a base from which to catapult yourself. That can have a dehabilitating effect on students and other professors, who might think. 'Why am I killing myself when Jones is making megabucks...
Friendly echoes those views as well, and unlike Hartman and Pollack, he alone shares Nesson and Miller's ties to both the academic and television worlds. Now the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Journalism Emeritus at Columbia University's School of Journalism, 30 years ago Friendly teamed with Murrow to create "See It Now." Their series sought to educate the public by often devoting a single program to a complicated and important issue or personality. The show perhaps remains most famous for its revealing programs on then-Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisc...
...Friendly deems his work with Nesson and Miller "the most important I've ever done" adding "We're trying to do what Murrow did, to get people involved in complex issues. "Friendly continues. "There's something so egocentric about people thinking. 'I'm only going to teach young lawyers about constitutional law. By the end of the year, I hope to have tapes of "That Delicate Balance" in over 1000 colleges--it'll be a theater of learning." Through that show and the special seminars. Friendly says, "Miller and Nesson have become great journalists in the best sense...
...Miller and Nesson help create interesting and exciting television. Through keen and probing questions, they quickly advance arguments and perhaps unintentionally, often make some reporters appear nervous and uncertain. "I think it's healthy for reporters to get their feet in the fire." Hewitt says Nesson remembers that just moments before "Viewpoint'"s airtime, in "Nightline'"s usual timeslot, moderator Ted Koppel told the assembled reporters. "You're about to confront the snarling tiger...