Word: severeid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northshield dislikes blatant editorializing on TV; he is mildly contemptuous of the kind of thing Eric Severeid does for CBS. But he says with unabashed frankness that "there is no such thing as objectivity in television reporting, not so long as it involves human feelings." And he does not apologize for it. And anyway, the public outcry against the networks was not a reaction against non-objective reporting or the result of a credibility gap between network and public. On the contrary, he says, the outcry resulted from the complete credibility TV has for the public -- the result of merging...