Word: sevareid
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...editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
...long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate on the big themes matches Eric Sevareid's, there is no resolution to the story's many conflicts. All we ever learn is that the hero and heroine cannot live with each other and cannot live apart. We can easily do without them both...
...switching roles after seven highly visible, highly paid years in a job that mostly requires him to set a scene briefly before switching to a correspondent-a snippety, jigsaw process he considers "challenging but not rewarding." He wants to be a commentator. Last summer, with the approach of Eric Sevareid's retirement, CBS News President Dick Salant talked to Chancellor about the job. Chancellor was intrigued but decided to stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant...
...much freer will Chancellor be to speak his piece as commentator? That too is something of a neuter craft. Even as gifted a wordsmith and observer as Sevareid could, on days when his brow was furrowed but his mind only half engaged, sound merely sententious. As the CBS News code defines the job, the analyst is "to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him . . . the audience should be left with no impression as to which side the analyst himself actually favors...
...Sevareid grew more conservative with the years, denounced many young Americans who protested the Viet Nam War, and wasted little sympathy on the Third World. "I refuse to feel guilty about their poverty," he said in a radio chat last month with Cronkite. "Look at black Africa. There's very little there that's worth much in 20th century terms...