Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of Basic English, raised by Winston Churchill at Harvard (TIME, Sept. 20), a small voice had a large suggestion to make last week. The voice was that of Dr. Lin Mou-sheng, Chinese scholar, author and editor. On CBS's People's Platform Dr. Lin interrupted a discussion of whether Basic English should be encouraged as an international language. Dr. Lin asked a disarming pair of questions: Why Basic English? Why not Basic Chinese...
...CBS caught a bear by the tail last week...
Most directly hit by CBS's stand was the Association of Radio News Analysts (TIME, June 28), whose stock in trade is opinion. Cried the organization's founder and mouthpiece, opinionated Hans von Kaltenborn: "No news analyst worth his salt could or would be completely neutral or objective!" CBS men and A.R.N.A. members met to thrash the matter...
Fact v. Opinion. One radioman who has worried greatly over this slack-mouthed matter is CBS News Editor Paul White. Recently Paul White, who has an able staff of warcasters, told the Associated Press Managing Editors Association that commentators should be forbidden to editorialize on the news...
...radio stations is limited by the frequencies available-which are scarce. Therefore, radio is less likely than the press to give an adequate hearing to those whose opinions differ from those of the commentators. White sent a sharp reminder to his staff to stick to the facts and to CBS's long-established policy of "no editorializing." He also spoke up in hope that the other networks would see the wisdom of CBS's ways...