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WORDmeister Note: Yesterday would have been Fred Friendly’s 97th birthday.

“Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It’s a commodity now, just like pork bellies.”

—Fred Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, 1915-1998), TV news pioneer, producer and CBS News president. (see Ralph Engleman’s 2009 biography, Friendlyvision.) Image: CBS, 1962

(Thanks to alert WORDster Alexandra Halsey)

 

• Longtime CBS News colleague Dan Rather called Friendly “a fierce and mighty warrior for the best . . . principles in journalism, . . . for his friends, and for his country. He never gave up, he never gave in; he never backed down, and he never backed up.”

• Editorial Comment: Some TV gives pork bellies a bad name.

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs from the Poynter Institute’s Craig Silverman about fake photos of Hurricane Sandy? Click here.

News from USU’s award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café


• Cache Rendezvous from Aggie TV News: Cache Valley’s TV magazine show (10/30/12)

• Presidential candidate blasts press for short-changing U.S. citizens, by D. Whitney Smith
• Rocky Anderson: 3rd party presidential candidate comes to USU (includes full video of his talk)
• ATV News: Tibetan monks, LDS Democrats, Pumpkin Walk & sports (10/24/12)
• Public hearing on short-term rentals in Providence gets no response, by Dani Hayes
• Landmark Construction wins contract for Smithfield Civic Center, by Katie Swain
• School board discusses rezoning of Logan’s gravel pit area, by Heidi Vaughan
• Where does taxpayer money go? Richmond’s recorder knows, by Heidi Vaughan
• Obama-Romney too close to call, opinion pollster tells USU audience, by Shayna Marcure

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