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TIME, like everyone else, has been castigating the television quiz shows for being fixed but it does not appear as if any of the accusers have paused long enough to examine the real substance of the situation which they are viewing with alarm. After all, what the programs basically purported to dispense is entertainment-and free entertainment at that. We do not expect the gospel truth every time we turn on our sets...
...comparing a TV quiz show with another form of TV "suspenseful entertainment": championship golf, or perhaps football's game of the week. No one would defend a fix in sports on the wild notion that it added more...
...most shocking spectacular that TV had ever produced, a congressional subcommittee learned the appalling story of the big quiz fixes from a parade of witnesses. As the testimony poured out, it became clear that TV's trouble is much deeper than the fixes. See SHOW BUSINESS, The Ultimate Responsibility...
...last week, with the television industry undergoing an agony of self-reappraisal in the lurid light of the quiz-show scandals (see SHOW BUSINESS), many a journalist working the TV beat as reporter-critic was busy appraising his own job. And to many a critic, it appeared that Des Moines's Dwight was not far off; the television reporter-critics have precious little influence. The quiz shows themselves are a case in point. For years, the nation's TV critics flayed the quiz programs as phony, valueless, and taste-degrading entertainment ("Immoral!" cried Jack Gould...
...warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...