Manuscripts
Correspondence
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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts
Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. 3 examples of 60-sec. LAT "Radio Continuity" (ads); Transcripts on various subjects, including: failed talks between USA and Mexico on sale of natural gas to USA; Michael Jackson (KABC-radio) interview with LAT staffer David Shaw, in part on Shaw's articles on LAT errors in coverage; about a dozen transcripts reporting LAT's refusal to run comic strip "Doonesbury"; Jess Marlow (KNBC-tv) interview of David Halberstam, author of The Powers that Be, a book which generally praised (Otis C.-era) LAT;KABC-tv reporters comment on Howard Rosenberg's LAT article criticizing the station's coverage of the Guyana People's Temple tragedy (2 copies).
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Departments - Editorial - Comics
Manuscripts
8 items: tear sheets of comic strips through the years ; letters and articles about the history and social ramifications of comic strips ; memos and press releases about LAT policies relating to comic strips. Specific strips discussed in detail include "Doonesbury" and "Little Orphan Annie." This is a 9/19/1971 column by Nick B. Williams headed "The Editor who dropped Little Orphan Annie."
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Chronological File - July
Manuscripts
Approx. 60 items. Letters and memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (7/30) 2-pp. reply to reader who disliked an Oliphant cartoon, describing the people depicted as "hideous characters"; (7/29) witty reply in praise of columnist Jack Smith; (7/28) reply to Charles T. Munger on "unfounded myths"; (7/28) West mag. minimum number of pages and advertising issues; 3-pp. letter to Sen. Sam Ervin (no date--has light blue paper clip); (7/21) reply to reader (Mr. Unger) who considered the comic strip "Doonesbury" an insult, with NBW thoughts on the "vitality" of that strip; NBW provides a thumbnail bio of himself and advice for students of communications / journalism (to Dr. Edwin Haroldsen of BYU); (7/16/) 3-pp. reply to Ed Dooley, Editor, S.F. Examiner, who had requested stats on "minorities" employed at LAT; (7/15) reply to Dr. Frederick Stare, nutritionist, who received criticism for his Spec. Section in LAT on health foods; memo to Dick Smith on dealing with subscription cancellation letters; (7/2) letter to Mr. Cox about LAT coverage of massage parlors; etc.
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E - Miscellaneous Correspondence
Manuscripts
Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: moral values in motion pictures & indecency in advertising; "the red-neck tradition" in Southern politics (in letter to E. Etheridge, June 1969); the deal to reprint articles from The Economist; an opinion survey published in Editor & Publisher rating opinion writers, including LAT's, on ideology; Williams reaction to American Center for Education's (previously mentioned) survey alleged that 18% of LAT columnist were "radical liberal" and another 32% were "extreme liberal; etc.
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Chronological File - April
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: (4/29/'71) letter to W. Robert Walton of Universal Press Syndicate indicating that if "the price is right," NBW will order the strip "Doonesbury" for LAT; (4/29/'71) reply to Mrs. Dana Smith of Pasadena, who wrote criticizing LAT features such as Drew Pearson's columns, as well as cartoons by Interlandi and Conrad; staff vacancies; (4/7/'71) letter to Tom Simmons, Editor, Dallas Morning News, in which NBW does some politicking for ASNE elections; etc.
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Chronological File - June
Manuscripts
"Approx. 55 items. Letters, memos. Subjects and correspondents include: memo to Otis Chandler on "expanding the scope of Student Outlook..." (6/17); extended comments by NBW on the comic strip "Doonesbury" (6/9); editorial policy changes (6/8); on proposed new rates for L.A. Water & Power Dept.; (6/2/) "theme issues for West" and advertising volume for that magazine; (6/22) to reader on bond issues, public lands and ocean frontage in public lands. "
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