Word: schmertz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corporation, said yesterday network television's news shows are "the most closed, systematically exclusionary" media in America because they "rigidly apply" a censorship process to the points of view they present...
...networks believe that controversial issues of public importance are best presented in the formats determined by broadcast journalists," Schmertz said, adding. "There can be no other points of view except that which the network journalists decide you should...
...speech at the Business School, sponsored by the Communications, Arts, and Entertainment Club, Schmertz said the networks repeatedly refused to run Mobil advertisements on energy-related topics because "they were too controversial...
...Schmertz said newspapers allow a more varied discussion of the issues in their advertisements, syndicated column, freelance reports and letters to the editor...
...Carter's program almost intact, the Senate dismembered it and no one can now predict what compromise may emerge from the conference committee. Meanwhile, businessmen apprehensively note that polls indicate that Carter has yet to convince the public that there is any energy crisis at all. Says Herbert Schmertz, vice president of Mobil Oil Corp.: "There is no consensus in this country for any energy policy, including ours...