Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of this altered what CBS President Frank Stanton described as the networks' "laxness of responsibility" in an industry that is little controlled and vastly influential. "Something has to be done before it's done to us," said Stanton, hinting at a more balanced program schedule or even at programing that the industry, possibly in an unconscious tribute, calls the "magazine concept...
...interested in your discussion of [CBS President] Frank Stanton's attitude toward Person to Person [Nov. 2], and feel inclined to take up the cudgels for Mr. Murrow. I was on this program two years ago. When you state that it is "vaguely" rehearsed, you are right. "Vaguely" is the word. I live in the country; therefore it takes a number of days to cable a house and build various steel towers. I talked some time prior to the program to the writer and director-twice if my memory serves me. Please bear in mind that these gentlemen didn...
...favor of the rigged program. Most of them involve prizes and/or money. Person to Person didn't and doesn't. But it isn't even "vaguely" rigged. I yield to no one in my admiration for Mr. Stanton, but this is really a little too much...
...that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...
...Stanton said CBS is ready to help formulate new legislation aimed at deceit. But he repeatedly opposed any action resembling censorship...