Word: programing
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Responded NET Program Director William Kobin: "You're wrong. We're not going fast enough...
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES. One of the functions of a residential college is to emancipate the young from the inevitable limitations of their home and neighborhood before it is too late. Even a superb academic program is unlikely to move most students very far if they return every night to home and mother...
...they understand the problem, speak expansively about the steps they are taking, but in reality do little or nothing constructive. Spiegel calls this "the Jerry Cavanagh Phenomenon." Detroit, where Cavanagh is mayor, suffered the nation's most destructive riots last summer despite a race-relations program considered effective by the city's government. "We are more willing to settle for violence than to change the social attitudes underlying it," says Spiegel, "just as many people are willing to suffer neuroses rather than undergo treatment and work to resolve them...
Next month NET will broadcast a similar nationwide show, Black Journal. In discussing such plans at a recent NET affiliates meeting in Manhattan, the program manager of one station took the floor to complain: "You are going too fast for our primarily white middle-class audience. After all, TV is still largely an escapist medium. They don't want to be reminded of all that stuff...
Identity Search. Within three weeks, some 55 U.S. channels will forgo their prime-time schedule for a Westinghouse Broadcasting Corp. program called One Nation, Indivisible, a 3-to 31-hour inquiry into the race problem. Sixteen citizens, including a Bible-quoting white minister, a policeman and a housewife P.T.A. president, quietly discuss their feelings-and biases. In contrast to the fiery confrontations between white bigots and black militants that are all the rage on many public affairs shows, the Westinghouse production is an unsensational, subtle and at the same time shattering view of the unconscious prejudice prevalent...