Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During a segment on dealer relations with the oil companies, one station operator was shown complaining that "the only difference between them and the hoodlums in the street is that [the oil companies] don't get caught." Then WNBC cut straight to an oil executive saying, "It is true, we're not willing to subsidize an economic loss at a marginal station." The juxtaposition, as Mobil saw it, was a "cheap distortion...
Free Time. After the series appeared, Mobil Vice President Herbert Schmertz, the company's public affairs chief, asked to buy 30 minutes of WNBC-TV's air time to reply. The station turned him down, citing an NBC rule against paid statements on "controversial" issues, a policy supported in a 1973 Supreme Court decision. Instead, WNBC-TV News Director Earl Ubell offered Mobil two or three minutes of free time on the evening news program, to be followed by a few more minutes of questioning by Trotta. Company executives declined, arguing that the time would not be enough...
Newspapers have letters-to-the-editor columns and op-ed pages to accommodate outside voices; broadcast equivalents are harder to find. The FCC encourages local stations to let viewers and listeners answer station editorials, but not news and documentary programs. In a Mobil ad that appeared opposite newspaper editorial pages the same day as the "hatchet job" blast, the company urged consideration of a "voluntary mechanism" for reply that would be "developed by the press [and] which would promote free and robust debate...
...late. As the train pulled into Washington Street Station, the wino clutched the neck of his brown paper bag and lurched through the door. I realized with a quick chill that I was alone, totally alone. Suddenly, as the doors slid shut, a trio of leather-jacketed, acne-scarred youth darted onto the train. The stench of beer and sweat and corruption filled my nostrils. As one of the toughs sprawled insolently across a seat, another flicked his switchblade open and shut in dull, menacing repetition...
...Harvard Square station, David Hershey-Webb ("pretentious name," he apologized) told me has cut short a planned evening of guitar-playing, singing and coin-collecting in front of the Coop to go to a party at the Commonwealth School, a progressive private school in a Back Bay townhouse. "I went to school there last year, and I'm going to go there again next year," Hershey-Webb said. "This year I'm taking a sabbatical at a Boston public high school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next...