Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen visit China. "I couldn't pass it; I couldn't defend this one," says Roper. He telephoned CBS News Director John Day at his Manhattan home and read him the text. Day agreed that it should not go on the air because Sevareid's opinion was showing...
Said a perturbed Sevareid: "What is analysis and what is opinion or editorializing? Possibly the differences can never be resolved." His network ruled not only that Roper and Day had been right about the differences, but that Murrow and the Manhattan deskman had been wrong. The Association of Radio-TV News Analysts protested: "Every competent news analyst is bound to express editorial opinion. He does so in selecting topics, in emphasizing their relative importance, and in the tone of voice he uses ... It is hard to understand why CBS still pretends to follow an impossible policy which its news analysts...
...expression while best safeguarding the public interest? The issues are so complex that even professional civil-libertarians disagree. The American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that stations should not be allowed to editorialize, thinks that if they do, the ABC method is best because it fosters diversity of opinion. Others complain that ABC abdicates its own responsibility in giving newsmen so much leeway, that its listeners tend to heed only the commentators who echo their own prejudices. The other extreme, even when buttressed by the sense of responsibility of the network, produces more lip service than performance, and mixes hypocrisy...
...Washington, all well aware of how bad Texas has looked recently in the eyes of the world. On one side walked House Speaker Sam Rayburn, on the other Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Said Speaker Sam, lest anyone mistake Thompson's qualifications: "The general, in my humble opinion, knows more about oil than any man in the world...
...ears so eagerly. In 1956, according to the New York Stock Exchange, no fewer than 30,700 market letters poured forth from 296 of its member firms, giving advice on what to buy and sell. Total circulation: an estimated 10 million. Estimated worth of most of them, in the opinion of most Wall Street professionals: "Not a hoot in hell...