Word: northshield
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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Like millions of others, he was awed by the martial atmosphere which brooded over the city during the convention and the brutality of Chicago's police force. But from his professional point of view--as producer of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report -- Northshield was as much disturbed by the violent reaction to NBC's coverage of Chicago...
...brunt of this criticism was felt more acutely by Shad Northshield than anyone else at NBC, for he alone was responsible for NBC's coverage of events outside the convention hall. And to him it was all a bit perplexing...
...Northshield probably has more to do with what comes out of the NBC news department than any other one man. His judgment determines exactly what Chet Huntley and David Brinkley read on the air every weekday evening at 6:30 p.m. He is acutely aware that his audience is in the millions and that he is a very strong influence on their opinions. That makes him a powerful man, and he knows it. On election night in NBC's election central control booth, he bragged jokingly that he could get Nixon to concede just by having Chet or David announce...
...credits roll up the screen. Huntley and Brinkley have always been those two congenial fellows with the wry wit who make digestion a little bit easier every night after dinner. They became something quite different during the Democratic convention. Their public turned on them, criticized them, and Northshield wonders...
...There Northshield -- surrounded by two dozen blank monitors that had been intended to carry outside events live--supervised a rapid editing before the film was finally aired...