We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
11/23/43
invoked its standing policy of not selling time for the presentation of controversial issues,
’’Sufficient time for Carol and his opponent has therefore been ’recaptured’ from ’Report to the Nation’”, Columbia said in explaining the situation yesterday, ’’and they will be presented by CBS which gives time at its own expense for the discussion of import¬ ant public issues, with equal or equivalent facilities for both sides. ”
When the question of differentiating between factual news and interpretation of news by commentators was brought up in the Senate Committee, Senator Wheeler ( D) , of Montana, Chairman, said he thought this was a good idea, Neville Miller, President of the National Association of Broadcasters, agreed that there should be a clearer division between news and opinion,
’’Commentators hold their freedom of speech has been abridg¬ ed by the Columbia. Broadcasting System's ruling, limiting them to straight news reports”, Mr, Miller told the Committee.
Senator Wheeler said that ”no one wants to abridge their freedom of speech”, expressed the opinion the CBS ruling while not the whole answer to the problem, still was a "step in the right direction”.
■ He insisted that opinion should be "labeled” beyond all possibility of confusion with "fact”, and that anyone "attacked" by a commentator, as well as advocates on both sides of controversial issues and candidates of opposing political parties, should have time and opportunity to be heard.
Senator Wheeler also favored "equal facilities for an ac¬ credited representative of the opposition to reply to any political or campaign speech by the President of the United States as well as other public officers. "
The bill, as written, makes an exception of the President, but Senator Wheeler contended that "if the President makes use of a broadcast for this purpose he should pay for it and the opposition should be afforded the same facilities to reply. ”
"Otherwise a President could abuse the privilege", he added.
It was also urged that tne Federal Communications Commis¬ sion be prevented in the future from exercising censorship or control over radio programs or from ruling that newspapers be excluded from ownership of radio stations.
xxxxxxxx
6