Rejouer samedi 25 juin 1983

CBS News Division Receives Word on Cuts

Date: 26 June 1983

Following a meeting on Friday between senior executives of CBS News and Gene Jankowski, president of the CBS Broadcast Group, the network news division announced that it had been ''assured of the necessary financial and personnel resources'' to continue operating in a competitive manner. The meeting followed public reports of resistance from Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News, to Mr. Jankowski's request that the news division pare its annual budget by $12 million and fire 60 employees to help shore up sagging profits at the Broadcast Group.

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WHEN FORM DICTATES CONTENT, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NEWS?

Date: 26 June 1983

By John Corry

John Corry

In its infancy, one respectable theory says, television news was so eager to separate itself from radio that it tried to ignore the spoken word and do it all with pictures. What the viewer could see was what he would get, and if he could not see it he would not get it. Form dictated content; form even became content. This is still a plausible theory about much of television news. Consider a small example: The other night, the ''CBS Evening News'' began its program with a story about the 21 Nicaraguan diplomats who had been expelled by the State Department. The placement of the story, at the top of the newscast, suggested it was the most important event of the day. In fact, the diplomats had been expelled the day before, and the film only showed them hurrying to catch their planes.

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For Newsmen, Death on a Honduran Road

Date: 26 June 1983

Official and public interest in Central America is reflected in the presence there of a large press contingent, sometimes with tragic results. Last week two American newsmen, Dial Torgerson, a Los Angeles Times correspondent, and Richard Cross, a photographer working for U.S. News & World Report, were killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while driving along a road in Honduras just over the border from Nicaragua. Since 1979, four American journalists - among more than 50 local and foreign news people - have died in Central America.

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Detroit Papers Avert a Strike

Date: 25 June 1983

AP

Negotiators for six unions and this city's two major newspapers reached tentative agreement on a one-year contract today, averting a strike that had been set for the afternoon, bargainers said. The Council of Newspaper Unions ''will take back an offer and unanimously recommend it,'' said Don Kummer, the council's president.

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U.N. Chief Criticizes Article in The Times

Date: 25 June 1983

Special to the New York Times

Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar has criticized as ''totally deformed and truncated'' an article in The New York Times reporting on his closed-door meeting Monday with journalists from the United States. The article quoted Mr. Perez de Cuellar as describing as ''misguided'' attempts by members of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to curb press freedom.

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CHARLES KURALT CONTINUES TO WONDER WHAT'S AROUND THE BEND

Date: 26 June 1983

By William E. Geist

William Geist

Studio 44 in the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street clears out fast when ''CBS News Sunday Morning'' is over, especially on a warm, sunny day when some members of the crew are talking anxiously of getting out to Connecticut and the Hamptons. ''I've never been to the Hamptons,'' remarked Charles Kuralt, bound for Sheboygan, Wisc., -and seemingly pleased about it. One would think he'd had enough of all that by now, of being on the road for more than one million miles and the better part of 16 years, living in a motor home, eating chicken-fried God-knows-what and covering the kind of insignificant stories that would set any selfrespecting reporter for a small weekly newspaper to typing a resume. Not Charles Kuralt, who grew up in North Carolina, spending much of his youth on his grandparents tobacco farm, and who seems most comfortable now back in the boondocks outside the brie belts between the quiche coasts. ''Not a week goes by,'' he said, ''when you don't run into something that just makes you say: 'Well, I'll be damned.' ''

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'NOT MUCH OF A WORLD TO LOOK FORWARD TO'

Date: 25 June 1983

By Don Hewitt

Don Hewitt

The writer, executive producer of CBS News's ''60 Minutes,'' delivered the following address, adapted here, to the graduating class at New Rochelle, N.Y., High School. Let me speak to you for just a moment about the terrible state of the world as reflected on page 1 of The New York Times - June 19 - your graduation day. Let me read you just a few of the items that should be of concern to anyone starting out in the world.

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TV: KURALT AND MOYERS EACH IN A NEW SERIES ON CBS

Date: 25 June 1983

By John Corry

John Corry

In general, a problem in television is that reporters say too much, telling us things they do not really know to be true, but that they only think may be true. Consider, for example, a correspondent doing a stand-up on the White House lawn: he may be speaking with high purpose and utter certainty, even though the source of his meditation is the routine briefing of a deputy press secretary. The correspondent will not be lying; he will not even be fibbing. It may be, however, that he will be talking through his hat. Therefore, it is a pleasure to have Charles Kuralt and Bill Moyers on the air regularly again. Now that Walter Cronkite appears only intermittently, it is certain that Mr. Kuralt will be the television correspondent most often described as avuncular. Mr. Moyers, on the other hand, is too serious to be avuncular, and sometimes he is almost solemn. Both, however, share one splendid trait: they do not speak beyond their own competence; they do not talk through their hats.

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News Analysis

Date: 25 June 1983

By Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times

Philip

Dioxin has rapidly become the most feared of all toxic chemicals in this country, but now there is an emerging argument over whether the fear has outstripped the hazard. President Reagan became the latest to join the fray when he suggested Thursday that news reports about dioxin ''have frightened a good number of people unnecessarily.'' He was reacting to a resolution approved Wednesday by the American Medical Association that condemned the news media for conducting a ''witch hunt,'' generating ''unjustified public fright'' and ''hysteria.'' Two scientific publications have also editorialized recently that dioxin is less worrisome than popularly thought. Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said dioxin is highly toxic when swallowed but when bound to soil, as is the case in most sites where it is found, ''it does not pose much of a hazard.'' Chemical & Engineering News, a publication of the American Chemical Society, said it was ''fair to say that dioxin is far less toxic to humans than the public has been led to believe.''

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News Analysis

Date: 25 June 1983

By John Kifner, Special To the New York Times

John Kifner

For Poland's Communist rulers, establishing any kind of link between the Government and Pope John Paul II may be hard -at least as far as the Polish people are concerned. As the Pope left Thursday after an eight-day tour, he made a few remarks of thanks to the policemen who had guarded him along the way. From the crowds lining the nearby hills came a chorus of derisive, jeering whistles, clearly audible at the Cracow airport, about a mile away. Nevertheless, there were Government proclamations today of the success of the Pope's visit and long articles applauding it in the controlled press. Normally reclusive officials offered interviews to foreign journalists hinting that martial law might be lifted, perhaps on July 22, the officially celebrated national day, marking the anniversary of the so-called Lublin Manifesto, which proclaimed the first Communist Government in Poland in 1944.

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