Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mirage blinded a CBS Washington deskman named James E. Roper one evening a fortnight ago, as he scanned the script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network. Through a series of pointed questions, the script challenged the wisdom of the State Department's refusal to let U.S. newsmen visit China. "I couldn't pass it; I couldn't defend this one," says Roper. He telephoned CBS News Director John Day at his Manhattan home and read him the text. Day agreed that it should not go on the air because...
Wholly Consistent. As the offending script showed, when it turned up later in the Washington Star and the Congressional Record, Sevareid's observations were fairly mild-and wholly consistent with the network's own views. Like most other major U.S. news-gathering organizations, CBS itself has publicly protested the State Department's policy of keeping correspondents out of China. It was the only network to broadcast direct reports from the Baltimore Afro-American's William Worthy, one of the three newsmen who entered China in defiance of the ban. To top things off, on the very...
Actually, Sevareid's rejected script was much gentler than many others that CBS has aired out of his own mouth. In June 1953 he said: "The country is not in danger of government by fascists or Communists; it's in danger of government by stuffed shirts." During the Truman Administration, CBS even permitted Sevareid the editorial "We." He said: "We think the President has been basically right on foreign policy, including his handling of the Korean war, but we think he's run out of gas on domestic affairs...
...decided that Severeid's script was editorial, not analytical," Day continued. "There was no time to rewrite it, so we kept the program...
...picture, like anything that is really alive, has plenty of faults. It is too long, often disorganized and sentimental. Yet John Fante's script, based on his novel, is full of happy touches, and Richard Quine's direction makes the most of them and of his players' talents as well. In his first Hollywood part, Salvatore Baccaloni, the Met's famed basso buffo, is a macaronical marvel. And Judy Holliday, in her funniest picture, surpasses herself as a comedienne...