Word: northshield
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Northshield considers this an unfortunate consequence of the events. Police brutality was a fact, which justified exposing it and condemning it. That is precisely what NBC's reporters...
...Northshield concedes that his camera crews may have focused too exclusively on the police. But he does not apologize for it. He is convinced the police over-reacted and that nothing the demonstrators did, or could have done, justified the police response...
...Northshield dislikes blatant editorializing on TV; he is mildly contemptuous of the kind of thing Eric Severeid does for CBS. But he says with unabashed frankness that "there is no such thing as objectivity in television reporting, not so long as it involves human feelings." And he does not apologize for it. And anyway, the public outcry against the networks was not a reaction against non-objective reporting or the result of a credibility gap between network and public. On the contrary, he says, the outcry resulted from the complete credibility TV has for the public -- the result of merging...
...NORTHSHIELD'S explanation of why TV was abused after Chicago is something like the "messenger-bearing-bad-news" theory, with a McLuhanesque touch. Television, he says, has become more than a vicarious experience for the American viewer. What happens on the TV screen is as concrete a reality as anything that happens in his own life. What happened last summer was that ugliness intruded into the viewer's life through TV one time too many, and he rebelled...
...Shad Northshield undoubtedly feels vindicated in his judgment of what to cover and how to cover it in Chicago, now that the Walker Report on convention violence is public knowledge. Not that he really ever felt his decisions needed vindicating. And he seems confident that his newsmen will again worm their way into the hearts of NBC viewers once the news they must report becomes less noxious again. The only question is--will...