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Television
Langman, Anne W. | November 17, 1956 issue

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Challenged by a scorching indictment from New York Times TV critic Jack Gould who stated that "the national electronic communications system made an absolute mockery of its obligation to serve the public interest," networks could only reply with a confusion of platitudes concerning "editorial judgment" and "balanced programming". In the next days coverage improved somewhat, revealing the tremulous sensitivity of the giant industry to voices of criticism, too rarely raised in anger. The networks pat themselves on the back for increased radio coverage, which they made available with nominal financial sacrifice and which, incidentally, caught little of the historic quality of the screen drama.

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TELEVISION; PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC systems; GOULD, Jack; RADIO; MASS media
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