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HEARTILY RECOMMEND AND ENDORSE
Carolyn SkolJar Ofssoclates
30 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N.Y.
WTRF-TV
CHANNEL 7
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA
Robert W. Ferguson, General Manager
OPEN MIKE
Foreshadows Coin-Box Blues
editor:
Our photographer snapped this in front of our building a couple of weeks ago. To my mind this is a good takeoff of what the people could expect if they are subjected to pay television. Just imagine this rig being rolled into the television homes of America, the meter emptied and poured into the funnel. As the old saying goes, "We do not miss
the air we breathe until it is taken from us." It will be a sad day in free America if people ever have to pay for their radio and television.
Walter J. Brown
President
WSPA-AM-FM-TV Spartanburg, S. C.
Rebuttal of Shaw's News Ideas
editor:
Re: "Do Radio-TV Deserve Equal Access" by Charles Shaw of WCAU Philadelphia [Trade Assns., Sept. 23], we will agree in part that all radio and tv news operations are not up to standards considered high in journalism. . . .
As for radio-tv attempting to gain prestige by demanding equal access, Mr. Shaw should reflect on the equally reprehensible practice of newspapers in attempting to use so-called prestige as a lever for monopoly and business gain. He should, with all his background, certainly recognize the almost universal practice of political reporting on the part of newspapers. By and large, political association in radio-tv news is a thing of minority note. . . .
Mr. Shaw is in a position of apparent dissatisfaction with radio-tv news personnel because not all of them came up through the printed news medium. Mr. Shaw might look carefully into many very creditable radio-tv news operations around the country, operations involving key men who never worked on a newspaper and were brought up in radio-tv. . . .
We in the business are most vitally concerned over the issue of equal access as pertains to mechanical reporting assistance. Newspaper readers the country over see regularly slanted reports of incidents based solely on the facility of the pencil-pad reporter. We feel strongly that such instru
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