Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). .Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey provides the answers on current issues for ABC's Howard K. Smith...
...means that there is a pervading reluctance to take sides on any issue. "I find an almost excessive lack of bias on television," says Howard K. Smith. "We are afraid of a point of view. We stick to the old American belief that there is an objectivity. If a man says the world is round, we run out to find someone to say it is flat." Network executives are also quick to delete any portion of a news program that might offend any powerful segment of the audience. Top management, said the late Edward R. Murrow, "with a few notable...
...Back Pages. "Television," says ABC's Howard "K. Smith by way of explanation, "is not just a picture medium. It is pictures, plus words, plus personality." When the words and the personality belong to a Walter Cronkite, they generate what CBS Vice President Gordon Manning calls "believability." Talking to the camera as if it were an attentive stranger, Cronkite projects an air of friendly formality, of slightly distant courtliness. His millions of viewers at the other end of the tube respond with consistent warmth...
...concentrate far too much on Safer-like shots, the kind of flaming action that ensures an appearance on the air at home. The military thinks that too many correspondents are out there for their "own personal aggrandizement," Huntley told a Variety reporter recently. ABC's Howard K. Smith took the same tack when he returned from a recent visit to Viet Nam. During the Buddhist demonstrations, he said, "television gave the impression that the whole country was rioting, instead of 2,000 out of 17 million." Television, he complained, "still gives the impression that it is an American...
...Gregory Markopolous, both of whom led a campaign to stop other New American cinema-makers from exhibiting their films at the Festival. Denied access, therefore, to Brakhage's "Scenes From Under Childhood," and Markopolous's "Galaxie," the best Brockman could come up with were the films of Harry Smith, an avant-garde film-maker of some decades past whose work in color and light, if interesting, is hardly what's happening, baby...