TV news wins the clash with newspapers for live coverage
Milton R. Bass reflects on the shift from newspaper reporters blocking cameras to television having free range during live events. He cites NBC News executive Reuven Frank on immediacy versus depth, noting TV's insistence on showing what happens as it happens and radio’s overreliance on foreign correspondents and garbled sound bites.
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Reuven Frank
NBC News
Mr. Frank
London
Cairo
Hong Kong
News media balance quick flashes with full context
The piece contrasts fragmented updates from radio and television with newspapers that recap events and provide background. It recalls vacationing during the Mideast war, obtaining the New York Times for full context, and cites Fred Friendly on ad pressure in news programming. Broadcasting and papers complement each other, but could be better.
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Cape
New York Times
Fred Friendly
CBS
Walter Crono
Western television in review faces dwindling Westerns
Hollywood reports a flop trend for new Western series this season as bigger budget films and established hits like Gunsmoke and Bonanza dominate. Across days, Custer and Dundee fail, Cimmaron Strip underperforms, Daniel Boone and Virginian show limited life, while Bonanza remains strongest with potential decline warned by insiders.
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Hollywood
UPI
Abc-Tv
Chuck Connors
Africa
Big Valley
Barbara Stanwyck
Cbs-Tv
Marshall Dillon
Custer
Dundee
the Culhane
Nbc-Tv
The
NBC -Tv
Daniel Boone
the Virginian
Protection Syndicate Guards Halloween Night Revenue
Amarillo reports an On-the-Spot Syndicate run by 70 Alamo Catholic High School juniors will sell protection for Halloween night at one dollar. The group guarantees protection from pranksters and donates 10 percent of profits to the Hurricane Beulah relief in South Texas. The remainder funds the junior-senior prom next May.
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Amarillo
Tex
UPD
Alamo Catholic High School
South Texas
Bombing Pause Opposed by GIs in Viet Nam
UPI interviews 100 American service members in Vietnam show strong opposition to pausing the bombing of North Vietnam unless it leads to peace talks. Only two believed the pause should occur, both new arrivals. many argue pauses fail and risk aiding the enemy, with views across Marines, sailors, and airmen noting continued need for targets and supplies.
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Bassano
U.S
Hanoi
Vietnam
Robert P. Morris
Melrose
Fla
Robert N. Leary
Buffalo
N.Y
Frederick H. Michaelis
Leary
South Vietnam
Lance Cpl
Gordon E. Hollister
Woodbury
Conn
Pfc
Thomas Flower
Bessemer City
N.C
Clarence Lewis
Detroit
Long Binh
Saigon
Kenneth R. Desser
Great Neck
Douglas
Modesto
Calif
Navy
7Th Fleet
Cost of Living Up in September
Washington reports September consumer price index rose two tenths of one percent led by clothing and services while food prices fell six tenths. Index stood at 117.1, meaning 11.71 buys what 10 did a decade ago. inflation debate widens as Congress faces tax increase.
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Washington
UPD
Congress
Johnson
Five Day Forecast for New England Regions
The five day outlook from Tuesday to Saturday shows near normal temperatures in Vermont and above normal in New Hampshire Maine Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Daytime highs range from the upper 40s at the Canadian border to the upper 50s in southern New England with nightly lows in the 30s north and around 40 south. Temperatures will be mild Tuesday cooler Wednesday then warmer again Friday and Saturday.
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UPI
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
U.S. Weather Bureau
Canadian
New England
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