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Kaltenborn Edits the News
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H.' V. KALTENBORN, Dean of Commentators
pOLLOWERS of H. V. Kaltenborn should not look forward to the purchase of a delinitive collection of his best broadcasts. Such a volume will never be published.
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"The technique of appealing to the ear is so different from that oi attracting the eye that the two should never be confused," explains NBC's dean of commen
tators. "In the former, voice color, emphasis, simplicity, repetition and contrast are of tremendous importanoe. In the latter, sentences can be longer, paragraphs more involved and references more erudite, for printed matter gives timi© for the reader to pause, re-read and reflect and to concentrate fully on the subject at hand.
"No one could successfully read an article on foreign affairs while listening to conversation yet millions of persons listen to news broadcasts about foreign affairs while occupied with other things.
"1 give these examples merely to show that written and spoken style are two completely different things. For that matter, radio and banquet hall style also are different things. That's why I have always disliked having to broadcast from a banquet table. The quiet, conversational, intimate technique suitable to microphone use cannot be effective in a hall. In the same way the vigorous, oratorical, hortatory style suited to after-dinner speaking grates on the radio listener's ear.
"Naturally, I frequently take something I have said on the air and adapt it for publication. But in such cases I rewrite every word. Of course, my case is peculiar because I extemporize all my radio talks but I think my point holds good even with speeches written especially for radio delivery.
Kaltenborn adds that while he has improved his radio style with 18 years of practice he still finds plenty of rough spots when he starts rewriting for the printed page.
"Most of those faults, such as slight hesitations or hasty mispronunciations are excused by the radio listener, who is participating with the speaker in the creative irocess and they even add a certain liveliness and intimacy to the subject," he says, "but when I icje a transcript of one of those talks I sometimes groan with humiliation as the cold type stares up at me."
Kaltenborn broadcasts Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 6:45 p. m. CST over the NBC-Red
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