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TV NOTEBOOK
David
Makes
A Case
For TV
By JOAN CROSBY
NEA Entertainment Editor
NEW YORK—(NEA)—David Brinkley has never been an
apologist for television, so when he defends the medium,
attention, to use the words of Arthur Miller, must be paid.
Realistic as usual, Brinkley agrees some of what is on is
worthless. But critics who keep using the words “mindless
pap” are, he feels, overlooking much that TV has to offer.
“I can really only discuss what I know—the news field.
I don’t watch that much entertainment. But television’s
coverage of the elections is not mindless pap, the coverage
of state funerals is not mindless pap, the coverage of con
ventions and space flights are not mindless pap.
“If anyone had useful criticism of the medium, we would
welcome it. But just to dismiss it all with two words is
stupid, wrong and not
Brinkley joins other NBC news correspondents on Oct. 7
when IV-i hours of prime time are devoted to From Here
to the ’7os, a study of the decade past and the one to come.
His subject: television. His theory: During the ’6os, TV
showed the American people to the American people.
“It was actually a very difficult subject to cover. The
important thing obviously is not TV, but what’s on it.
Television is like the telephone, of itself it’s nothing. It’s
what’s on it that makes it.”
A recent poll of television viewers uncovered the fact
that a large percentage of them feel TV can and does lie
when covering such news events as the Vietnam war, riots
and the Chicago conventions.
“That’s such an obvious fact I don’t see why they had
to poll about it,” Brinkley said. “Os course TV can lie.
But I don’t think it does. The word lie in this case is a
euphemism meaning ‘television can and does put on things
I, the viewer, don’t want to see.’
“Recently I got a letter from an otherwise intelligent
woman who asked why I wasn’t objective in reporting what
she called ‘bearded hoodlums who coerced their way into
colleges.’ If I had reported that way, to her it would have
been objectivity.
“Os course people who are demonstrating act up even
more when they see a camera pointed at them. But what
most people don’t realize is that all of it is being filmed,
and most of it doesn’t get on. When people are acting up
for the camera, it is phony and it looks phony. Except for
the Chicago convention riots, I don’t know of one instance
where a live TV camera was covering. They are always
covered by film cameras.”
One other case of TV being a whipping boy which irri
tated David was an article in the New York Times.
“The writer (Herbert Mitgang) had the nerve to say
that ‘TV occasionally interrupted its commercials to pre
sent entertainment.’ That same issue of the Times was 65
per cent advertising. Nowhere in the history of TV has the
medium ever done that.”
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
Viet Casualties
Reach Low Level
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI) —American
battle deaths dropped last week
to their lowest level in more
than two years, the U. S.
Command announced today.
Ninety-five Gls were killed.
Headquarters said the toll
was the lowest since the week
ending Aug. 12, 1967, when 82
American servicemen died in
the war.
The sharp drop in deaths—l3s
Gls were killed during the
previous week—reflected the
decreasing level of ground
fighting, now at its lowest point
since a Communist cease-fire in
early September.
In one flareup today, U. S.
Army troops beat off a North,
Vietnamese attack against their
camp just below the Demilita
rized Zone, killing 12 Hanoi
soldiers. One American was
reported killed and 21 wounded.
Another 1,315 Americans
were wounded last week, 577 of
whom required hospitalization,
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military spokesmen said. This
was an increase of 201 wounded
over the previous week.
Communist losses were put at
2,382 killed, while South Vietna
mese forces lost 308 killed and
806 wounded, their lightest
casualties in three weeks.
Allied military headquarters
explained the decrease in
fighting as a result of the
Communists’ apparent decision
to withdraw their large units to
bivouacs to rest and resupply.
It had no effect on terrorism,
spokesmen said, as a bomb
exploded in a marketplace 55
miles northwest of Saigon
Wednesday, killing four civi
lians and two government
soldiers. Twelve others were
wounded.
U.S. helicopter gunships and
warplanes attacked one of the
Viet Cong retreat hideouts 100
miles northeast of Saigon
Wednesday after U.S. ground
troops spotted it from a
distance.
Television Review
No New Series
Extraordinary
By RICK DU BROW
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -Come
dian Herb Shriner used to tell
how they once held a beauty
contest in his home town and
nobody won. By parallel associ
ation, we come today to an
assessment of the season’s new
television series.
If you were asked to name
the better programs of the new
season, you would have to
include CBS-TV’s interview
with Russian writer-defector
Anatoly Kuznetsov, and NBC
TV’s “Meet the Press” talk
with Stalin’s daughter, and
ABC-TV’s “Folk Gospel Music
Festival” and CBS-TV’s Woody
Allen special. But no series,
really, has anything extraordin
ary about it.
Several, of course, have
something to recommend them.
For example, ABC-TV’s “Love,
American Style,” a weekly
group of humorous contempora
ry tales of romance, is most
promising.
NBC-TV’s “Then Came Bron
son,” with Michael Parks as a
sort of motorcycle replacement
for the old nomad cowboy hero
—here today and straighten
things out, then gone tomorrow
—has a strong star, fine
photography and a good con
temporary touch.
ABC-TV’s “Room 222,” about
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a Negro history teacher and his
associates in an integrated high
school, is a nice mixture of
contemporary message-melo
drama and wry humor (provid
ed by Michael Constantine as a
world-weary principal).
NBC-TV’s Bill Cosby comedy,
meanwhile, has a tremendously
strong and appealing star, and
I like the way plots give way in
his show to something like
extended monologues concern
ing people, the way things are
and cool attitudes—via vig
nettes.
One standard situation come
dy, CBS-TV’s “The Governor
and J. J.,” offers some pleasant
banter of an escapist king by
Dan Dailey (the-gcvernon) and
Julie Sommers . (as his
daughter). Miss Sommers is
surely video’s female catch of
the season.
So much for those new shows
that seem to have more to offer
than the others. There are,
however, two new hour-long
soap-opera type serials that are
very fancily done (I mean for
sheer plushness). One is NBC
TV’s “Bracken’s World,” about
a movie studio. The other is
ABC-TV’s “The Survivors,”
focusing on those parasitic
bums known as The Beautiful
People. Given a chance in the
right time slots, both shows
could catch on.
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Bond Backs Tate
ATLANTA (UPI) -State Rep.
Julian Bond told an election
rally Tuesday night that black
educator Dr. Horace Tate is the
best qualified man to be the
next mayor of Atlanta.
“It’s not too late for Tate,”
Bond told the enthusiastic au
dience at the West Hunter
Street Baptist Church. In the
audience was Southern Christian
Leadership Conference chief the
Reverend Ralph Abernathy and
Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer,
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founder of the Mississippi Free
dom Democratic Party.
Mrs. Hamer also endorsed
Tate. She said, “I’m here be
cause I want to see Dr. Tate
elected mayor of Atlanta and to
say a black man has as much
on the ball as anyone.”
Travel on Texas highways in
1968 totaled 59 billion miles',
the equivalent of 128,000 round
trips to the moon.