From The Vault: "The Press And The Candidates," Oct. 16, 1964

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: From The Vault

Think media bias is a new issue? Think again: Here's a 1964 special hosted by CBS News correspondent Eric Sevareid, who speaks of "an ugly boil of hostility towards the press."

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His guests are Clare Boothe Luce, a former member of Congress and "active supporter of Senator Goldwater," and Ralph McGill, publisher and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click on the video box to watch.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by thy1138 April 8, 2007 12:51 PM EDT: I enjoyed the public service announcement at the end from NYer Rod Serling, "anyone who uses fire is a potential killer" having missed his talk in Buffalo, NY years ago. Senator Goldwater's son (sometimes spray painted as AuH2O back then) was a test pilot for NASA I think, one he flew a pivoting single wing I read. Once, in a archaeology survey "discovered" Luce Landing on Long Island's eastern north shore where the original surveyor of Martha's Vineyard Island landed and settled in early Suffolk County and some of the historical research talks about them, later a name associated with large circulation magazine "Life" going recently out of circulation.

The Presidency and its selection is in dire straights these days when it loses the ethics of a democracy, and forgets, Newburgh, NY where a plot by his officers and stopped by him, almost made George Washington a king. It is also threatened when it forgets that a then once 10 year old German immigrant arrival on Governors Island, NY (offered back to NYC for $1 by then president Clinton a "swivel gun" monument there states) who was arrested and held in jail for an article he printed on only the second printing press in New York, critical of a candidate held on the "...Eastchester village green, the site of the "Great Election"(1733), which raised the issues of Freedom of Religion and Press" in Mount Vernon, NY. The original Bradford press printed only the affairs of state.; Reply to this comment


by cktirumalai April 7, 2007 3:21 PM EDT: I remember the 1964 Presidential election, one of the most polarized ever: Senator Goldwater had ferociously enthusiastic supporters (strange to think that Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Republican in her youth) as well as ardent detractors. The 1972 contest between the incumbent President, Richard Nixon, and the insurgent Senator McGovern, in the midst of the Vietnam debate was nearly as acrimonious. It is no surprise that the media came in for their share of praise and excoriation in both those years. One does not have to read Marcus Aurelius to know that things which have happened before will happen again. As has been said, the more things change superficially the more they remain the same (fundamentally).; Reply to this comment


by ronmwanga April 7, 2007 2:04 AM EDT: This is Tiffany Network Old School. Can we get some Harry Reasoner up in this hizzy?; Reply to this comment


by geoffrey1986 April 6, 2007 2:31 PM EDT: Thank you for the video! Very interesting.; Reply to this comment

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