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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (8190)	9/16/2003 8:53:14 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793790

We forget that Murrow got his start in TV as the host of a puppet show for kids. I don't remember that, but his "At Home" series with Celebs was a real PR show. If you watch the old Kinescopes it will gag you. What made CBS and Murrow was that the Radio correspondents he put together were all old News guys who could write. They went on to dominate TV. And they had the advantage that it was a simpler time, and people tended to believe them. It is forgotten now, but "Douglas Edwards" was a God in this country at one time. The present crowd are simply PR people who can read scripts. You can see how they are winnowed out as they move to the bigger stations. I watched the top people make it or break it in LA. Here is Honolulu, the Newsies are a Joke. But they tend to go for the male Polynesian and the female Japanese. A couple of old white guys still hang in. What saves that situation is at sometime on their way to the top, they have to come over well on talk shows. If they are not smart enough to handle that, they fall by the wayside. We are seeing the exceptions to this on the Cable shows where some dummies with high verbal ability get to be stars.