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These are not ordinary reruns, and it is probable that most viewers will react to them not just with pleasure but with shock and astonishment. What no one could have realized until now is that tele vision has not only changed since the '50s, with color and a dozen other technical advances, it has been transformed. It is, indeed, scarcely the same medium. The TV of the '80s is no more like that of the '50s than talking movies are like silents. The loss, it might be added, is immeasurable...
...with the tongues of men and of angels and has not television, he is become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, for it is television that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things. Says defeated Presidential Aspirant Jerry Brown: "If a person isn't on tele vision, he is a political nonbeing. He does not exist for the voter, even if that voter meets him in person...
Some of the most violent action in tele vision lately appears not on-screen but in broadcasters' boardrooms. The latst victim: Maurice R. Valente, 51, fired iast week as president of RCA Corp. after just six months on the job. Like CBS President John D. Backe, dismissed seven weeks ago by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, Valente had been the heir apparent to a major communications com pany. RCA is the parent company...
...tanned and outwardly relaxed as he ponders the campaign in his Palm Springs-area home, Ford looks eager to join the action. His tele phone jangles repeatedly with calls from old political cronies urging him to announce his candidacy as their best hope of stopping Ron ald Reagan. Apart from the lingering animosity from his close personal fight with Reagan in 1976, Ford shares the fears of many Republican leaders that Reagan could not win if the Democrats renominate President Carter. He doubts that the other Republicans in the race could win either...
...children," the tele-teat says, "It is an irrational world. Full of injustice. Full of lust and war. And there's more bad news about the American economy: economic growth is now malignant. Because, as you can see, we are living in an irrational, terrible world. In some parts of this world 'American Product' is a swear word. And they will perform this terrible drama before our eyes, and our only defense is to be aware...a little smarter, and freer. We will not flagellate ourselves. We are trying to be strong and to protect our vital interests. Tune...