Talk:Fred W. Friendly
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I removed the expansion tag, as the article has recently been significantly expanded, and there is no indication what area still needs expansion. DES 17:47, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Quotes and sources
Recently, Robert Bruce Livingston added three quotesd to the quote section. They seem like plausible and good quotes. However...
The cited source for two of the quotes seems to be a web review of a television program. The reviewer seems to be the same as the editor wo added these quotes to the article. Wouldn't it be better for the citation to say that the quotes were made in a TV broadcast, and cist the program and its airdate?
The other quote is almost a proverb. The source cited (a web text of soemone who atttributes a quote to Freindly, but doesn't say when or where Friendly said it) gives the quote in significantly different (and less striking) words. (The article gives What you don't know can kill you the cited source has As former CBS News President Fred Friendly has observed, it is no longer true, as our grandparents believed, that "what you don't know can't hurt you." )
also the addition of these three quotes is marked as a minor edit. I don't think adding significant content, even if a small, percentage of the article, is a minor edit. i thought that meant just fixing links, spelling, grammer, formatting, or the like. DES 17:56, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wording of first paragraph?
The wording to the beginning of this article is confusing, and I wonder if there isn't maybe a sentence missing. From the paragraph:
"In 1966 he resigned from CBS when the network ran a scheduled episode of I Love Lucy instead of the first senate hearings questioning American involvement in Vietnam. Former CBS News President Richard Salant, writing in his memoirs, said that Friendly's problem was compounded by the fact he could not make such a request directly to the top CBS management..."
What was Friendly's problem? What was his request? Eli Hand 17:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Fred felt that to do anything short of broadcasting the entirety of the hearings would be compromises on the principles and commitments CBS had made when it got its license. He believed, like Murrow, that if television compromised on its promise to the government to inform, and instead made commercial success top priority, then he would no longer continue helping futher that change. Chris
[edit] Death
There's no mention of the circumstances of his death. JAF1970 18:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
