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...read your comments on the recent TV quiz show scandal [Oct. 19] with great interest-incredulity even. Why should anybody get excited about a fixed quiz show? It is quite obvious that the producers involved were simply delivering what the public wanted to see, namely, entertainment. Who cares whether a TV wrestling match is honest or not? Frankly, I can think of nothing duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against...
...Opposed to the dim uncertainty of the world of the educated man is the bright little circle of light in which the quiz-show contestant basks in his isolation booth. All is certainty there. One need not worry or be distressed. Only those questions are asked which have answers, and then only if the answers are available...
When he wrote these lines (in LIFE), soon after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...
Troubled by House and Justice Department investigators, bedeviled by singing quiz contestants, TV still managed to put its best foot forward last week with some topnotch shows...
...subcommittee recessed until next month after hearing Dr. Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, say there is always the danger of connivance in high-stake quiz shows...