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Helnl Radio-Television News Service
9/6/50
MISS MUIR SEEN CONVICTED WITHOUT DAY IN COURT
Writing of the ouster of actress Jean Muir from the radio cast of "The Aldrich Family", Jack Gould of The New York Times, con¬ cludes:
"The effect of the General Foods decision, of course, was very much to pass Judgment on the merits of the protests. By dis¬ missing Miss Muir the corporation did exactly what the protestors asked It to do. To take refuge behind the curtain of ’ controversial¬ ly’ Is to beg the Issue.
"By acting as it did. General Foods, with Its enormous prestige and influence, put a policing power behind the allegations contained in ’Red Channels’. It lent the weight of reliability to charges which still remain to be substantiated and corroborated and admittedly were compiled by private parties with strong political feelings. Without having her day in court, Miss Muir has paid all the penalties loss of Job, earning power and reputation which go with conviction.
"If this policy is extended and unfortunately it al¬ ready has been to considerable degree radio and TV no longer can call their soul and conscience their own. They will live under the shadow of a blacklist. The pressure groups, with their own person¬ al standards of what constitutes a Communist sympathizer, will be the dictators of the airwaves. Then the legitimate and much-needed fight against the Introduction of totalitarian methods in this country will have been lost on a major front. The muir incident has helped the Communist cause not ours.
"Clearly, it is time that both the sponsors and the broad¬ casters took their courage and their faith in democracy in hand and recognized, no matter how reluctant they may be to do so, that they have been caught up in one of the major issues of our times. The Muir case is not Just a radio and advertising matter. Rather it is a national question of whether common sense and ordinary standards of fair play are to prevail in this country.
"The overwhelming majority of both executives and employ¬ ees in radio and advertising belong to what might be loosely called the ’political middle’. With the rest of us they abhor communism and rightism with equal vigor. It is time that this ’political middle’, which in a very real sense is America, began to assert It¬ self. By our silence we are running the risk of being crushed between the two extremes. It is time that we made our influence felt because the Muir Incident and its ramifications suggest that the hour may be much later than many of us had thought."
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WORLD SERIES TO BE PRESENTED BY NETWORK POOL
Television coverage of baseball’s 1950 WorldSeries early in October will be presented simultaneously by three networks the American Broadcasting Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the National Broadcasting Company.
Although the Gillette Safety Razor Co. will sponsor the telecasts, each netxrork will pay the sponsor $50,000 for the privi¬ lege of carrying the programs. Gillette recently paid $800,000 to obtain the television rights to the baseball world' 6 annual classic. Gillette before arranging the pool, is said to have offered the event to NBC on an exclusive basis for $200,000, but the network declined, XXXXXXXXXX 12