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...this nation that the Department of Agriculture is doing what it can for them-and wants to do a great deal more." He charged CBS with "gross errors of fact," but the network disagreed and denied Freeman's request. "We were right," answered CBS News President Richard Salant. Besides, "equal time only applies to candidates for public office, and I don't know what Freeman is running...
...guard against such abuses, the networks sent out memos after last summer's riots ordering reporters to "tell it like it is." As for the charge of overexposure of the black militants, CBS News President Richard Salant says: "Our test is not whether we approve of the event or agree with the individual, but whether it is legitimate news." But one man's "legitimate news" may be another's sensationalism-and vice versa...
...Shut Out." Then came the flurry of demands for Barnard's presence. CBS paid his air fare to the U.S. so that he could be interviewed on Face the Nation (TIME, Jan. 5)-and, according to CBS News President Richard Salant, donated $5,000 in a charitable gesture to the Christiaan Barnard Research Fund. Suddenly, says Lucy Jarvis, "we found ourselves shut out. We could hardly get near him"-although Barnard did appear on NBC's Today show...
...family. NBC would pay the Blaibergs $9,000 for exclusive interviews before the surgery, $25,000 for exclusive movie and still pictures of the operation itself, and $16,000 for exclusive post-operation coverage. Was this the start of an internetwork auction? Decidedly no, says CBS's Salant. "We did not bid for anything, and we didn't offer anyone anything. We don't believe in payments for rights to a hard-news story. Dr. Barnard doesn't belong to anybody, he belongs to the world." For its part, CBS was determined to get its cameraman...
Married. Serena Russell, 22, debutante daughter of former. Vogue Publisher Edwin F. Russell and Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill (Winston's cousin); and R. Stephen Salant Jr., 25, Manhattan commodity broker; in a tense ceremony at which the bride's parents tried to smile away the fact that Mom was just in from Reno, where she'd gone to sue Dad for divorce, and Dad had just gone to court to prevent Mom from taking three other daughters out of the state; in Southampton...