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...time, confined to tacked-on programs of later commentary. These were pretty lame, epitomized by Eric Sevareid, furrowed brows and all, concluding glumly that it was all old stuff. In the final debate, Bill Moyers got it better: both sides, he suggested, punted a lot. On public television, Sander Vanocur called the debates "an unnatural act between two consenting candidates in public." The effort to maintain neutrality on the air apparently permitted a jaded response to the whole event, but not a comparative judgment of the two candidates' performances. Having been told they had been watching a contest, people...
...those who support Mrs. Ford's views also backed her televised advocacy of them. AT LAST, A REAL FIRST LADY! exclaimed one telegram to the White House, where mail was running about evenly for and against Mrs. Ford's opinions. Added Washington Post Television Columnist Sander Vanocur: "Betty Ford should be banned from television. She is too honest. Mrs. Ford wears her defect like diamonds. And they dazzle...
...certainly carried out its part of the bargain. In the past 18 months, such liberal commentators as Sander Vanocur, Bill Moyers and Robert McNeil have disappeared from its schedule, although its public-affairs coverage has not been substantially reduced. It has also brought what the Administration fondly describes as "grassroots democracy" to the system by giving the nation's 246 local PBS stations the budgetary power to control programming by buying or rejecting possible PBS shows in a form of program "auction." Only those shows winning sufficient financial commitment from local stations will be included in the PBS lineup...
...eight-to-seven Republican majority, voted to withold funds from most PBS public affairs shows, accounting for thirty per cent of PBS's programming. William F. Buckley's "Firing Line". was dropped from the schedule, as was "Bill Moyers' Journal, Washington Week in Review" and $85,000 worthof Sander Vanocur. Said Loomis, "We ought to be spending our money on the kinds of programs that would stand up timewise for six months or a year...non-timely offerings." Obviously, programs that stand up "timewise" can't be too compelling issuewise. Said one PBS official, "Their view is that public...
Though the ostensible issue is centralization v. decentralization, ideology is the major consideration. Conservatives in both the Administration and Congress have strenuously opposed what they consider the liberal tone of public broadcasting news shows, like one that features former NBC Commentator Sander Vanocur. They have also protested segments of the Great American Dream Machine, a hip magazine of the air, which they thought expressed radical viewpoints. "Despite its supposed educational purpose," complained Republican Congressman Clarence Brown, "public TV is showing more and more strictly one-sided programs: antiEstablishment, antiwar, antiGovernment, anti-this and anti-that...