Manuscripts

Radio TV Reports, Inc

Description: 10 items. Brief personal memos (typed and handwritten), transcripts from Radio TV Reports. Subjects include: Soviets missiles in Cuba; real estate sales; Pamela Mason's comment that, in Los Angeles, she was forced to read "low brow papers like the Los Angeles Times;" LAT coverage of Nixon; other examples of Mason displeasure with LAT. Mason, a talk-show host on local KABC-TV, was characterized to Williams in a note by "EJR" (another editor?) as "Bitch of the Week." Note was stapled to transcript of 7/27/1962.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1962
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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5 items. Transcripts on the following subjects: Sky Valley Airlines (KNBC-tv report); KABC-tv's Bruce Herschenson comments on LAT's, specifically TV critic Howard Rosenberg's, "disregard of accuracy"; blurry or faint print in LAT; problems between LAT and Chicano Studies profs at CSULA (2 items).

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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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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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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3 items. Transcript from KMPC-radio, 3/26, in which on-air reporter (Fred?) Hessler is critical of LAT staffers Dwight Chapin and Jeff Prugh. Bill Walton and UCLA coach John Wooden are also mentioned. Transcript (4/17) of interview from KABC-tv in which Ralph Story talks to Milt Kahn, who is critical LAT and Herald-Examiner sports coverage. Transcript from KCOP-tv news (12/27) which reads, in part, "Former County Administrator Baldo M. Kristovitch sued the Los Angeles Times for $2 million libel damages today, over a 1972 letter to the editor." Otis Chandler and Melvin Waters (letter writer) are also mentioned. A photocopy of the original letter is attached.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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4 items. Three transcripts dated in March 1961, are from KCOP-TV broadcasts by Cal Tinney and Tom Duggan. Tinney praised LAT series on the John Birch Society, Duggan was critical of the same series. One more KCOP-TV transcript of June 1961, has Duggan again criticizing LAT on the subject of the United Nations.

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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9 items. Transcripts on various topics, including: Bruce Herschenson (KABC-radio) savages LAT -"inaccurate...misinformation....Robots and computers....the L.A. Times has reached that point"; David Reavill reports on Times Mirror earnings, mentioning newsprint costs and TM's lumber mills; several briefs on downtown area blackout (10/1983) during which LAT printed Herald-Examiner and La Opinion; long Michael Jackson interview (KABC-radio) with Robert Rawitch, Suburban Editor of LAT;

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Radio/TV Coverage - Transcripts

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Approx. 25 items. Reports from various broadcast media outlets (KNXT-tv, KNBC-tv, KHJ-tv, KNX-radio) on topics including: the LAT Charity Game; 4-part interview of Otis Chandler (2 sets) by Joseph Benti (10/13-10/17); Benti interview with Robert Gottlieb, author of Thinking Big, a book critical of LAT; Michael Jackson radio interview of Art Seidenbaum (spelled Sidenbaum in transcript); Councilman Joel Wachs guests on "The Tommy Hawkins Show" (KHJ-tv).

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