09-07-2010, 11:19 AM
Last night while I was busy baking the fish and mashing the potatoes, the 'telly' in the living room was pouring forth the lead story which, said the announcerette, seemed like something out of a John LeCarre novel, which immediately made me recall the old warning about propaganda: "if you can get them past your opening assumption, you've got them".
The network was ABC-TV at which I once spent the day watching, from the inside, the complete production [8 AM through second dinner time feed] of that very same broadcast back when Harry Reasoner was the anchor, Av Westin was the chief, and Dick Richter was the second-in-command. As the March '73 event rose to its conclusion, the phone rang twice to present views on the day's controversy from Washington. If I have it correctly, ABC-TV was originally Capitol Cites Broadcasting as founded by the former SEC Chairman-turned-Director of National Intelligence William Casey. Tonight's informational launderess was Diane Sawyer who got her start as a speechwriter for Mr. Richard "Tricky" Nixon.
The network was ABC-TV at which I once spent the day watching, from the inside, the complete production [8 AM through second dinner time feed] of that very same broadcast back when Harry Reasoner was the anchor, Av Westin was the chief, and Dick Richter was the second-in-command. As the March '73 event rose to its conclusion, the phone rang twice to present views on the day's controversy from Washington. If I have it correctly, ABC-TV was originally Capitol Cites Broadcasting as founded by the former SEC Chairman-turned-Director of National Intelligence William Casey. Tonight's informational launderess was Diane Sawyer who got her start as a speechwriter for Mr. Richard "Tricky" Nixon.
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