Word: cbs
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Another study linking TV watching with aggression was funded by CBS. In 1972 the network commissioned William Belson, a sociologist at the London School of Economies' Survey Research Center, to run a six-year, $290,000 study of 1,565 London teen-age boys. Belson's conclusion: long exposure to television noticeably increased the degree to which they engaged in serious acts of violence (smashing cars and phone booths, setting shopping bags on fire...
...CBS dismissed Belson's finding as adding "nothing of consequence" to the continuing debate on the issue. In response to Federal Trade Commission pressure and nationwide lobbying by groups like Action for Children's Television (ACT), the networks have launched a series of special dramas for children and reduced the number of week end ads by more than 40%. (Yachtsman and Atlanta Braves Owner Ted Turner has offered to subsidize Saturday children's programs on his own cable station, WTCG; they would run with...
...banality to some advantage. All last year in Lansing, Mich., for example, High School Senior Eric Pretzlaff has been filling out his home "viewing log." His assignment is to take notes on the prime-time shows he sees with a view to improving his understanding of economics. After watching CBS's Alice, he noted that Alice's high standard of living is not consistent with her job as a waitress in a small restaurant. In Eric's class, Economics Teacher Rudy Johnson asks, "How much job security does a small restaurant owner like Mel (Alice...
John and Mo Fight Watergate Blind Ambition. CBS. In four parts beginning...
...share of heat for Washington: Behind Closed Doors, a fictionalized twelve-hour mini-series about Watergate. ABC played fast and loose with historical facts: all names and most events were altered for the sake of heightening the White House horrors. In a new, eight-hour Watergate series, Blind Ambition, CBS has tried to profit from ABC's dilemma. A docu-drama adapted from John Dean's memoir (among other sources), Blind Ambition recites enough facts to satisfy the most literal and obsessive Watergate buff. Yet scrupulous accuracy does not necessarily make for good drama or even good history...