Word: newsman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried," the mayor told an NBC newsman. "I don't know how they can do this to us. We're such a small town, I just don't understand how they can do this to us. We've always had such good relations with our colored people...
Party Line. For TV newsmen, the problem is to satisfy viewers who have come to expect the news to match the action of other programs. Too many "talking heads," regardless of their message, can be deadly, and thus, as one newsman admits, "we're still basically in show business." That fact has led some newsmen to overstep their charter. Recently, Los Angeles' KNBC sent a film team to Claremont Men's College to shoot a debate on Viet Nam, and caused a ruckus when the students' spotted the newsmen unpacking half a dozen posters with...
...local stations aired Scope in the off hours of Sunday morning or not at all. The affiliates were not wholly to blame. Even when the show was run in prime time, so few people watched that it was eventually dumped. Such lessons have not gone unheeded. Says one Miami newsman: "We are going to use the best pictures-which means those with the most action...
...more than the usual crossfire between politicians and press. In this case, the newsmen were concerned not with the ultimate aims or tactics of the McCarthy machine, but rather with its efficiency. One newsman, who admitted that he didn't care for Nixon's personality or his policies, nevertheless said that the former Vice-President's well-oiled campaign "almost makes a man prefer Nixon...
Balanced Footage. Back in Manhattan, secretaries and vice presidents and every newsman in town, including CBSs John Laurence, on home leave from Viet Nam, poured into the network headquarters. As ABC-TV News Veep Bill Sheehan put it,"a lot of union rules went out the window" as staffers fell to without regard for jurisdistional niceties. ABC's three-man orbituary unit hastily updated its canned footage on King, and CBS's Charles Kuralt narrated a 20-minute pretaped orbituary covering King from childhood...