Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interview with Castro...
...reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole thing...
...headlines are most noticeable in Monday morning newspapers after Sunday's panel interview shows. Last Sunday U.S. TViewers saw and heard West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi and New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges. Last week an estimated 15 million watched Soviet First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. What each of these men said on TV made stories for Monday's papers...
This use of TV to reach the public and make news is spreading to other cities. New York City Controller Lawrence Gerosa last fall used a Sunday interview on WRCA's Searchlight to score the city's school-building program as being "too fast and too fancy," stirred an open row in the papers. As reporters clamored for rebuttal to Gerosa's charges, school board officials bided their time until they in turn could state their case...
Unwritten Rule. Although most editors use wire-service stories of Sunday network TV shows, many are still sensitive about acknowledging that the news in their pages originated on TV. When the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed its story on Mikoyan's TV interview, it omitted the name of the program on which he appeared, and that of the broadcasting company (NBC's Meet the Press). Editors are particularly pained at picking up news stories developed by local TV stations. In Chicago some rewritemen still invoke the old unwritten city-room rule to omit the names of the show...