Radio annual (1954)

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O O <► TELEVISION CODE— NARTB <><►<► propriety, and shall avoid such exposure or such emphasis on anatomical detail as would embarrass or offend home viewers. 2. The movements of dancers, actors, or other performers shall be kept within the bounds of decency, and lewdness and impropriety shall not be suggested in the positions assumed by performers. 3. Camera angles shall avoid such views of performers as to emphasize anatomical details indecently. 4. Racial or nationality types shall not be shown in television in such a manner as to ridicule the race or nationality. 5. The use of locations closely associated with sexual life or with sexual sin must be governed by good taste and delicacy. COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITY A television broadcaster and his staff occupy a position of responsibility in the community and should conscientiously endeavor to be acquainted fully with its needs and characteristics in order better to serve the welfare of its citizens. TREATMENT OF NEWS AND PUBLIC EVENTS News 1. A television station's news schedule should be adequate and wellbalanced. 2. News reporting should be factual, fair and without bias. 3. Commentary and analysis should be clearly identified as such 4. Good taste should prevail in the selection handling of news : Morbid, sensational or alarming details not essential to the factual report, especially in connection with stories of crime or sex, should be avoided. News should be telecast in such a manner as to avoid panic and unnecessary alarm. 5. At all times, pictorial and verbal material for both news and comment should conform to other sections of these standards, wherever such sections are reasonably applicable. 6. Pictorial material should be chosen with care and not presented in a misleading manner. 7. A television broadcaster should exercise due care in his supervision of content format, and presentation of newscasts originated by his station; and in his selection of newscasters, commentators, and analysts. 8. A television broadcaster should exercise particular discrimination in the acceptance, placement and presentation of advertising in news programs so that such advertising should be clearly distinguishable from the news content. 9. A television broadcaster should not present fictional events or other non-news material as authentic news telecasts or announcements nor should he permit dramatizations in any program which would give the false impression that the dramatized material constitutes news. Expletives, (presented aurally or pictorially) such as "flash" or "bulletin" and statements such as "we interrupt this program to bring you . . ." should be reserved specifically for news room use. However, a television broadcaster may properly exercise discretion in the use in non-news programs of words 783