Word: salant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very lucky in that my family was not seriously affected," says Richard S. Salant '35, former president of CBS News, now living in New Canaan, Ct. "Except for the headlines, and the fact that fathers of friends of mine jumped out of windows, I wasn't much affected...
...worthy paper much given to solemn defenses of its own probity. To submit to inside-the-craft judgments, the Times said, "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation. We will not furnish information or explanations to the council." That powerful opposition effectively doomed the council from the start. Richard Salant, then president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many of his network colleagues, including Walter Cronkite, did not share his keenness for a council...
Disappointed by its lack of impact, the council closed its doors last week. "The public doesn't seem to know we're here," lamented Salant, who had served as council president for the past ten months. "And worse yet, the press just didn't think we're very useful." Undaunted, he called the news council "a valid idea whose time has not yet come, but will in the near future." Perhaps...
...newspapers, wire services and newsmagazines were willing to testify before - but not to be part of- the Sidle group or any other Government body attempting to write guidelines for the press. Journalists on the panel, however, included such men as Keyes Beech, a Pulitzer-winning war correspondent, and Richard Salant, who once headed CBS News...
...conservative Christian organizations from which they were rather casually drawn. TIME correspondents last week found no upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual as the title character...