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...policies usually are squirreled away in film clips on news shows or sternly interrogated by reporters on Sunday interview programs. The FCC has consistently ruled that "fairness" is achieved when television merely gives exposure to opposition viewpoints; the authors contend that the networks must do more. They must give spokesmen opposed to the President comparable time and an equal chance at a nationwide audience...
...network time for major presidential candidates, paid for by the Government; an automatic right for the opposition party to respond to any TV speeches made by a President within ten months of a presidential election or within 90 days of congressional elections; quarterly prime-time debates between major party spokesmen. In theory, at least, such measures would prevent Presidents from hogging the screen. But enacting the reforms would be a complex and controversial business. Meanwhile, are Americans now as vulnerable to White House brainwashing as Presidential Television suggests? Perhaps not. Despite their heavy use of TV, Johnson and Nixon hardly...
...belligerent capitals and in New York City, where both sides have traded rhetorical blows at the United Nations. Last week TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont had separate interviews with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed El Zayyat. The questions put by Lamont to both diplomatic spokesmen were identical. The answers were alike only in their intransigence...
...Zayyat: The Israelis have taken it on themselves to be the spokesmen for all the world, including the Arabs. There's a suspicion that Israel is an expansionist regime bent on annexing all the Arab area. Israel's repeated expansions, including Jerusalem [the Israelis among other things, now claim the city as their capital and have built high-rise housing projects for Jewish immigrants in the Arab sections], and its refusal to withdraw from the occupied lands enhance this image...
...Spokesmen from Howard Johnson's could not be reached for comment on the incident...