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...PLUGOLA...
...canceled by NBC in 1975. Aside from two skill-testing parlor games, Family Feud and The $20,000 Pyramid, all the current shows celebrate the theater of cruelty and the entertainment values of Las Vegas. Masochistic contestants meet fourth-rate Hollywood celebrities in a neon-lit orgy of product plugola, group hysteria and psychological mayhem...
...courts, but a policy of wooing the businessmen who head media corporations with promises of economic security. This strategy is most evident in the Whitehead bill for Federally-licensed television stations, where local channels are offered longer five-year licenses in exchange for an end to "ideological plugola." The press is not immune from such Federal pressure. Many hard-pressed dialies would like to see the passage of the so-called Newspaper Preservation Act. Given such pressures, a competitive fringe of "amateur" investigators may be necessary to keep the big media honest...
...this criteria could be extended to any citizen who decided to take up an observer's position in order to "enlarge his intellectual viewpoint." (Since it is actions, and not sentiments that are here required to be neutral, a journalist needn't express a neutral point of view. "Ideological plugola" would be allowed.) And because most citizens would be unwilling to always adopt such a disinterested stance, the instances where such a privilege would be granted would be inherently limited. Perhaps fulfillment of the traditional ideal of neutrality, at least with respect to actions, is the price journalists must...
...every major social program inaugurated since the Eisenhower administration. Simultaneously, the war on the First Amendment continues, with newspaper reporters the first major casualties, but more on the way if Clay T. Whitehead, Director of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy, makes good his rhetorical attack on "ideological plugola" in the network news. If Whitehead has his way, the airwaves will soon hum with Richard Nixon Thought...