Word: tv
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Even more telling, perhaps, is the fact that the audiences flocking to dance performances these days are getting more youthful all the time. Raised on TV and movies, a visually oriented younger generation finds something in the spectacle of the dance that turns on the mind's eye. Following a recent performance in Manhattan of John Butler's Ceremony, two flower children stopped the choreographer on the street. "You Butler?" said one. "Saw your ballet. You tell it like it is, man." Says Butler: "It was the best compliment I've ever been paid...
...than the U.S. television journalists who are covering it. Since the Tet offensive began, 14 correspondents and crewmen from the U.S. networks have been injured. Last week two ABC men, Bill Brannigan and Jim Deckard, were injured in the bombardment of Khe Sanh.* As a result, many members of TV's standard three-man teams (correspondent, cameraman and sound man) have begged off from hazardous assignments, and the networks are having trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff, who was frequently shuttled into Viet Nam for fill-in duty, has refused further combat assignments...
...TV journalists, to be sure, are not the only ones becoming vulnerable and restive. But the first war to be thoroughly covered by television is most perilous for the TV crews in the van. To the men in the field, network managing editors back in New York seem obsessed with "the wire-service syndrome" - they ask for coverage of every bit of action. Says one embittered TV staffer: "Editors are so afraid of missing one story that to protect their flanks they have been asking us to risk getting our tails shot...
Another difficulty is that TV's technological problems are only half-mastered. In addition to their standard infantry pack, TV correspondents must keep pace with the troops while toting a tape recorder; their sound men lug some 20 lbs. of amplifiers and other recording gear; the photographers are draped with more than 40 lbs. of camera, batteries and film. Worse still, to synchronize film with the correspondent's commentary, the three have to be linked by a cable less than 10 ft. long, end to end, which makes them about the fattest target in any outfit...
...credit or no, U.S. or native Vietnamese, cameraman or correspondent, some of the best of the TV crewmen are not bugging out. "It's a good story," explains NBC's Vo Huynh, "something I can't miss. So I've got to be here." Agrees Garrick Utley, NBC correspondent since 1963: "You learn in two weeks or even two days out here what takes two years anywhere else." CBS Cameraman Smith insists that he wants "to go back as soon as I can -this month if the doctors will...