To: what's up
“...I’d like to see someone write some kind of expose on Murrow and how he had a detrimental effect on CBS...”
I wonder about CBS chief William S. Paley and his wife Babe Cushing and their influence on CBS politics. Babe was the daughter of pioneer neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing but she was a society girl and close to Truman Capote and other Left Bank notables. While Paley was known to watch the advertising and money angle of the biz he gave Murrow a boost.
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07/27/2009 9:24:37 PM PDT by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Monterrosa-24
I've read that Paley and Murrow had tensions over the "See It Now" format. Apparently, Paley didn't like the Murrow method of raking a person over the coals without giving the person equal time to respond. I think Murrow was the beginning of muck-raking TV.
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