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...some cases, restraint involved outright self-censorship. When two black teachers at South Boston High were beaten and their cars were smashed, the incident was ignored at WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...
Louisville's WHAS-TV puts on one-minute recorded statements from local spokesmen for all sorts of views 15 times a week. WGBH-TV, the public broadcast station in Boston, turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching...
...event in art this week is WGBH's annual "Art Night", the start of their fund-raising auction. From 6 p.m. until midnight, on Sunday, June 2, channel 2 will sell off 275 works by local artists--they've been on display at the Prudential Center all week, and you can place written bids up until air time. But it's more fun to tune in and succumb to the lures of the auctioneers (like Kevin White, Sonya Hamlin and other local notables) who encourage you to "Stay at Home and Bid by Phone." The best show...
Commercial broadcasters have shown little interest in expanding the range of televised science programming, but WGBH is doing something about it. It has produced and, with other public television stations this season, is offering Nova, a series of innovative, hour-long shows aimed at filling the void between deadly dull "educational" lecturing and pop-science trivia...
Produced by WGBH'S Michael Ambrosino, the series was modeled on the BBC's Horizon series. It also benefits from the expertise of many leading scientists who, says Ambrosino, "are starving for the opportunity to portray science accurately." In Strange Sleep, a dramatization of the discovery of anesthesia, eminent Bostonian physicians did a remarkably credible job of acting as they portrayed their medical predecessors. Occasionally, as in The Crab Nebula, the program's accuracies are a bit too complex for laymen to follow. But for the most part the shows accomplish their purpose: to stimulate the mind...