Sunday, December 1, 1963
Now & Then byßillProuty
With television’s fantastic on
the-spot coverage of the Dallas
disastef last week, that medium
emerged as the undisputed peer
of all means of reporting "live”
news when such an event is of
sufficient importance to justify
; the fuH intensity of its concerted
efforts.
The entire television industry’s
three and one-half day repor
torial vigil over the assassina
tion of President Kennedy, the
wounding of Governor Connally,
the seisure of the suspected
sniper, the murder of the al
leged assassin, the eulogizing
and burial of the fallen Presi
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dent, along with the story of the
first hours in office* of the new
President, Lyndon Johnson, is
unprecedented and unparalleled
In the history of live news cover
age.
Television, with its at% mo
bile one-man cameras and other
special equipment, has appar
ently overcome radio’s last ad
vantage over it in presenting
live news reports from unexpect
ed places, in that it can now get
into the inaccessible places here
tofore attainable only by news
paper reporters and their still
picture cameramen, and by
Radio’s walkie-talkie pickup units.
No event in the mtvf as the
world was more in
tensely, graphically, thoroughly
and universally covered than the
shocking assassination of Presi
dent Kennedy at the faojgM of his
young career, aad the spectacu
larly dramatic events which im
mediately followed in both Dal
las and Washington.
And in the forefront of all the
news-gathering media stands the
new undisputed champion: on
the spot, network-controlled tele
vision.
Yet, television’s emergence as
the pre-eminent medium for live
coverage of big, moving news
events has been and will con
tinue to be a boost rather than
a drag to the popularity of the
press and radio, its two great
competitors for the dissemina
tion of dramatic news in the
making. Millions of people who
could not look at television dur
ing working hours were listen
ing to radio accounts coming
from Dallas and Washington, and
during the three historic days
aewspapers were being sold in
amazing numbers. Competition
in news-gathering, it seems, is
just as profitable as it is in busi
ness.
But, as with any new cham
pion, television now faces tre
mendous new responsibilities,
and not a little soul searching.
How, in the future, for in
stance, can the industry afford
to give up millions oP dollars in
advertising revenue that were
lost during those three days last
week? Or indeed, could the tele
vision networks survive such a
financial loss in the event of the
breaking of another world-shat
tering news event in the near
future? Perhaps some sort of
pay television, on a separate
hews band not carrying commer
cials, could be worked cut. In the
meantime, this financial prob
lem could be a tremendous one
for the industry.
As for the soul searching, the
new champion television must
ask itself how far it is going to
continue to probe into, and lay
bare to the eyes and ears of mil
lions of utter strangers, the raw
emotions of unfortunate persons
bereaved by tragic, though ad
mittedly newsworthy eveats? Hie
industry must ask itself if the
agonizing interview with the dis
traught widow of the murdered
Dallas patrolman J. D. Tippitt
was necessary, and if it was
legitimate news or gross inva
sion of privacy?
And lastly, television, along
with the press end radio, must
ask itself if it didn’t contribute
substantially to the stupid and
useless murder of President
Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee
Harvey Oswald, by the berserk
punk, Jack Ruby, when it joined
in the clanging chorus insisting
that Dallas Chief of Police Jess
Curry move the former from one
jail to another only when the
event could be recorded live?
These are just a few of the
important issues that confront
television as it emerges into the
number one purveyor of on-the
spot news events for millions of
viewers all over the world, and
for which the industry must
find satisfactory answers.
•But in any event, there must
be diminution in the television
networks’ newly developed capa
bility for graphically telling the
unadulterated, on-location truth.
For only in the harsh, glaring
light of uncensored, unvarnished
(truth can free men find their
way to a better world and a bet
ter way of life.
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“Still Life” By John Gordon Os Chapel Hill
Chapel Hillian Second In Art Contest
Four representational art works
were named top winners in this
year’s North Carolina Artists*"
Exhibition in ceremonies Tuesday
night at the annual meeting erf
the North Carolina State Art-So
ciety, which traditionally pro
vides most of the award money
for the annual classic for state
artists.
The four make up the first all
representational slate of winners
in recent years. Since the 1940's
awards have almost unanimously
gone to abstract works.
First prize this year was
awarded to an energetic, bright
coiored oil screen by Gordon
Symphony To Play
Tuesday Evening
The University Symphony Or
chestra will present its annual
fall concert this Tuesday evening
at 8 o’clock in Hill Music Hall
on the UNC campus. Now in its
18th season under conductor Earl
Slocum, the 80-piece orchestra is
made up of students, faculty, and
townspeople.
Featured work on the program
will be Gustav Holst’s orchestral
suite "The Planets.” Each of
the planets’ mythological connec
tions is musically illustrated in
separate movements, concluding
with "Neptune, the Mystic”
whose music calls for an off
stage women’s choir which sings
with the orchestra. A 33-voice
choir, under the direction of
Wayne Zarr, will be
Tuesday’s performance.
As a tribute to the late Walter
Golde of New York and Chapel
Hill, the orchestra will perform
Golde’s setting of “Psalm XX111"
with Joel Carter as baritone solo
ist.
Wagner’s Prelude to “Tristan
and Isolde” and Massenet’s Over
ture to "Phedre" will complete
the program.
The University Symphony is be
ing presented by the Tuesday
Evening Series of the UNC de
partment of Music. Admission
to all series concerts is free.
Mahy showing an artist and his
model in a studio setting. The
win meant SIOOO to Mr. Mahy,
raw of New York but formerly of
AMttville and a graduate of Dav
idson College.
Mr. Mahy was the 1954 recipi
ent of the annual scholarship
award and is the only one of the
current winners to have won pre
viously in the 26-year-old series.
The three second prizes went
to a subdued green-gray canvas
of a kitchen table with utensils
by John Gordon of Chapel Hill,
and to two sculptures—a lime
stone head of a woman by Og
den Deal of McLeansville, and
a tall, slim version in polished
wood of a listening bird by Louis
Jones of Greenville. All runners
up received SSOO checks.
Honorable mentions worth SSO
each went to a casein by Mary
Beth Buehholz of Asheville, a
gouache and pencil by Randall
Snyder of Greensboro, and an
oil by Betty Watson, also of
Greensboro.
The SIOO scholarship given by
the Raleigh Woman’s Club was
won by Victor Pickett, a student
at East Carolina College, Green
ville.
A new prize in 1963, the Har
relson Fund Award, which pro
vides $750 for purchases for the
Erdahl-Cloyd Union on the N. C.
State campus, was presented to
a marble on wood base sculpture
by Horace Farlowe of Raleigh
and a casein by James Tucker
of Greensboro.
Judges for this year’s exhibi
tion were Peppino Mangravite,
oainter and head of the depart
ment of painting at Columbia
University, and William Zorach,
sculptor and vice-president of the
CUB PACK MEETING
On Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Sunday school auditorium of Uni
versity Baptist Church there will
be an organizational meeting for
Cub Pack 826 sponsored by the
church. All boys between 8 and
11 who are interested in joining a
Pack, and their parents, are in
vited to attend.
national institute of arts and let
ters.
The entire exhibition, which
consists of 182 works selected by
Mangravite and Zorach from
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