Word: salant
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...request-which came on three hours' notice-CBS and NBC both said no. They observed that because the President is a declared candidate for reelection, they could be required under the Communications Act to furnish equal time to other candidates seeking the Republican nomination. CBS News President Richard Salant explained that his network would be willing to accept the risks created by the equal-time rule only "in circumstances of national emergencies or urgent presidential announcements." An NBC spokesman said that his network believed that only presidential speeches dealing with "international events affecting the national security" could be broadcast...
Quinn blames almost everyone in the chain of command at CBS for the fiasco. "I suppose you'd have to say that Gordon Manning made the most mistakes, but they were mostly sins of omission, just not doing anything. But [Richard] Salant was president of CBS News: he knew what was going on. They all knew what was going on. And they must not have done something for a reason...
...Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president of CBS News: "If we sign, we are either lying or submitting to their rules for bad journalism." A few reporters from United Press International, Associated Press, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC indicated that they were under orders from home to sign, if necessary, in order...
Ironically, CBS drafted standards years ago, making a firm distinction between news and memoirs. Haldeman's reminiscences apparently slipped through the guidelines. Moreover, CBS News President Richard Salant ripped into NBC News for the quints deal...
...week's end Salant told TIME: "I'm going to re-examine the whole question and see if I can't redraw the line to get things more precisely back to the standards applied to Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower. I may have slipped here. The last thing in the world I want to do is add to the dangers of having newsworthy people not sit still for interviews in hard-news situations. If I added to that, I'm damned sorry...