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...famous documentary The Selling of the Pentagon (TIME, April 5, 12), which showed how the Defense Department spends millions to promote its public image. After the Nixon Administration complained that the program distorted the facts, the House Commerce Committee chaired by Congressman Harley O. Staggers subpoenaed CBS President Frank Stanton, demanding to see "all film, work prints, outtakes, sound-tape recordings, written scripts and/or transcripts." Once before, CBS had turned over material on an abortive program, Project Nassau, involving a projected invasion of Haiti. Now Stanton offered only the film used and a transcript of the show. He refused...
That CBS moved some quotes cannot be disputed, but Stanton argued that this is a common journalistic tool employed to gain clarity and conciseness. Critics have a better argument about the quotation that was taken out of context. Here, Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Z. Henkin was shown replying to one CBS question with a statement that was partly from an answer to an earlier inquiry. There is disagreement about whether this constitutes deceit or sloppy editing...
More perplexing is the matter of television's role as a journalistic enterprise, which is licensed by the Government and thus subject to federal scrutiny. Stanton conceded that broadcasters are answerable to the public-but, in a difficult argument, at the same time rejected the Government's right to examine and judge CBS's practices...
...study committee will meet during the summer and report its recommendations in November to the Overseers and to the Associated Harvard Alumni (AHA). It consists of F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36 and Francis Keppel '38, current Overseers; Frederick B. Lee '28 and David B. Stone '50, past directors of the AHA; and Robert L. Hoguet '31, a retiring Overseer who will act as chairman. Daniel Steiner '54, counsel to the University, will serve as secretary for the committee...
...even as he was intensifying the bombing of North Viet Nam and the fighting in the South, Lyndon Johnson ordered a far-reaching escalation in the psy-war in Viet Nam. At the urging of CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton, just back from a visit to Saigon, Johnson decreed that there be television in South Viet Nam, not only to advance the struggle against the Communists, but also to contribute to the all-important task of "nation building." A few months later, two electronics-crammed Super Constellations beamed the first broadcast while circling over Saigon. Said...