Word: payola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of these men (like Chester Bowles and John Kenneth Galbraith) helped to draft the Democratic platform, and occasionally the eloquence of their unhappiness gives the lie to the visions of mindless utopia cast by the rest of it. "We have drifted into a national mood that accepts payola and quiz scandals, tax evasion and false expense accounts. . . exploitation of sadistic violence as public entertainment," they tell us. The presence of these words in the platform implies that President Eisenhower's administration has been responsible for all these, just as Frank Church suggested in his keynote address that the Republicans...
...least attractive product of Detroit since the exhaust pipe, Disk Jockey Tom Clay seemed to have hit the final groove last fall when, on the testimony of a rock-'n'-roll promoter sometimes known as Nivens the Nightshade, he was caught flat out accepting large scoops of payola. Clay candidly discussed his history on the take and became one of the most celebrated ex-deejays in the U.S. Last week Deejay Clay was not only spinning once again, but to Detroit's shocked surprise, he was doing it for WQTE, a more-filtered-than-thou sort...
...After two years of dirt sifting by the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, the House passed a bill tightening broadcasting regulations and outlawing payola (maximum penalty: $10,000 fine and a year in jail). The Federal Communications Commission would monitor TV programs for hints of payola or other abuses, slap a ten-day suspension or fine of up to $1,000-a-day on offending stations...
Moving overseas is not always easy. Many countries, such as Brazil and Peru, have tough labor laws that make it almost impossible to fire an incompetent worker, and others exercise strict control over investment. In some countries the problem is payola for government licenses, etc. Blueprint standards have to be changed, laws and languages learned...
...deception"). Van Doren exposed not only the quiz fakes but the underlying shoddiness of the TV industry, started an ostentatious if temporary move toward purity. Susskind, who emerged again as the season's most prolific producer, demonstrated that the most important problem- more important than quizzes, payola and canned laughter-is good programing...