Word: televison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before he entered politics, McCall worked as a journalist and a televison commentator in Portland, and this background may have resulted in another of his idiosyncrasies: open press relations. Long before politicians began crooning about "government under glass" and "sunshine" laws, McCall was churning out ways to let the people in on the decision-making process. He opened his staff meetings to the press for instance. (At one such public session, the governor spent half an hour deciding whether to remove one welfare recipient's telephone. He eventually solved the dilemma by taking up a collection in the room...
Living in the midst of "The Bodacious New World of CB" [May 10], I can no longer enjoy uninterrupted entertainment from my radio or televison. For instance, the beginning of my favorite late-night TV show more often than not sounds like this: "Mary Hartman, c'mon, good buddy!" Simultaneously, the picture reception becomes more scrambled and disoriented than Mary Hartman herself. What makes you think that "TV is, after all, a nonparticipant pastime...