Word: netful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responded NET Program Director William Kobin: "You're wrong. We're not going fast enough...
...NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays...
Next month NET will broadcast a similar nationwide show, Black Journal. In discussing such plans at a recent NET affiliates meeting in Manhattan, the program manager of one station took the floor to complain: "You are going too fast for our primarily white middle-class audience. After all, TV is still largely an escapist medium. They don't want to be reminded of all that stuff...
...Says she: "I'd like a couple million of them to watch and say, 'Hey, so that's what they do when they go home at night.' " Preferential Treatment. The attempt to add black to the TV spectrum is not confined to entertainment shows. Net works and stations all over the country have started a hunt for black reporters, film men and technicians. In the past few weeks, TV channels in New Orleans, Miami and St. Paul have added Negro staffers. They are not easy to find since, as in so many other fields...
...coincidence, a five-day series on the same subject also bearing the title One Nation, Indivisible begins midweek for high school audiences on 140 Public TV stations. NET and the three commercial networks all contributed to the project. In NET's Journal series, two powerful programs in the past month chronicled the search for black identity among the Negro middle class and university students. This week the subject is racism in suburbia, with a revealing case study of Mount Vernon...