Word: networker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Butterfly's Belch. At every step down the Alley, Fred has to fight the network censors. About these hapless blue-pencilers play the full, fanged lightnings of his wit. "The Molehill Men," he calls them. "A radio censor is a man who comes into his office every morning and finds a molehill on his desk. His job is to build that molehill into a mountain before he goes home." It still gets his sinus in an uproar to recall that during the war he was forbidden to refer slightingly to the Ubangi -because, the censors explained, the Ubangi might...
This, said CBS, was where Commentator William L. Shirer got off. Hereafter, another CBS news analyst-Joseph C. Harsch, the network later announced-would be using the time...
...Vice President Edward R. Murrow hastily stamped on the soft pedal. "It does not involve Mr. Shirer leaving the network unless he chooses to do so," he purred. "Mr. Shirer will have a new spot, but what it will be is not known...
...responsibility for this curb on free expression in radio rests as squarely on the network which tolerates it as on the sponsor. CBS claims it is not unusual for a show to be dropped by a commercial sponsor. This comes from a network whose president not many months ago brandished an accusing finger at American broadcasters for permitting advertising excesses and thereby contributing to "bad radio." Yet, I'affaire Shirer--the most dangerous form of advertising excess--is excused in an offhand manner by that same radio chain...
Philip M. Storn, New Orleans, Crimson Network (program manager, production manager, president), Interhouse crew...