European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge in the stars and stripes saturday May 14, 1977 Jimmy new York one of the new York policemen in charge of finding the .44-Cauber killer who has murdered five people so far was talking about the rumours that the killer was a policeman or comes out of a police family because he shoots his gun with both hands. Departments All Over the country train their men to do it this Way. But the policeman. Inspector Tim Dowd. Discounted this notion. He did t have to be trained to shoot like that Dowd said. Lie could have Learned that from the cop shows on television. All he has to do is turn on television at night. The Only thing they have on television is police shows anyway. And on television everybody shoots with two hands right hand on the handle left hand underneath it we went Home through neighbourhoods a dark and deserted at 9 ., As they would be at 4 . Here and there a Pale Blue Light tilled a window a More certain indication of life than Muddy footprints. The people inside the houses undoubtedly were watching cops shoot guns with two hands. This could be prime television s Only contribution to the nation s Washington they Are rewriting the communications act of 1934 in an Effort to change the television we see. But the argument so far deals Only with the fairness Doc Trine equal time controversial news and television s right to organize a debate. Som of the arguments Are dangerous for they advocate government getting its hand into con tent. And All of the arguments have no attachment to problem with television is that most of it is refuse. The shows you see Are the pro Duce of a group of is men in Hollywood All of whom speak Only to each other. They Are known As the Hollywood Community or the creative Community. Under their manage ment one hit show about cops brings us 10 More shows about cops within the Only Way these cop shows make a dra Matic Point is to shoot somebody or run Acar with squealing tires through san fran entire level of television can be improved without getting the hand of govern ment involved in the Content. It can be improved by placing one sentence into the new communications act. Only one sen tence nothing More no great chunks of paragraphs containing endless wooden sentences written by lawyers whose knowl Edge of language ends with the sight of their own name on a retainer Check. Just one simple declarative sentence. Have it read every licensed television station in the country must provide one hour of live programming in prime time on each night of the station can put on anything it wants in that hour. But no film and no tape. This Means that for an hour a night on every Sta Tion no cops will be firing with two hands no cars will squeal through san Francisco. Nor could local stations during this hour put on sixth rerun of Perry Mason. For an entire hour Iii the heart of the evening everything would be live now As you see it. On the screens would be either new shows or dramas or something entirely new something nobody has done Yel. An imbecile or two might try to put on a game show but no game show can sustain an hour a night each night of the week. The first bet would seem to be putting on news shows on an hour when people Are Able to see them. To news now is primarily watched by kids old people and women. Nearly everybody else is either still working or on the Way Home when the news shows appear around the country. In the world of advertising for a network news show the biggest prize in demographics is a Woma Between the Ages of in Ana 39. It has to be. I Don t know a Man who works for a living inner York City who sees network news for More than a few snips every now and leads you to wonder about the news on to when people running the program know beforehand that the audience they must attract comprises one segment of population women 18to39." because of the live program hour we would see National news at 9 or 10 The Way it should be. Because of restrictions news Content would be changed. Minor exceptions could be allowed for film footage fan earthquake or a presidential inauguration. But the news show primarily Wouldhave to be live. The shows now Are a series of generally meaningless film stories introduced by one person. The new shows would have to depend on people being interviewed live reporters reporting As you watch them instead of appearing before you on carefully edited bits of film or tape. The time differences would cause network news departments to put on two news shows a night one originating from new York an the other from los Angeles. This would end the National suspicion about All television news reflecting the opinions of a few people in new York. A suspicion which happens to be exactly a network decide not to go through with news it would have to come on with the return to playhouse 90. The danger Here is that scripts for television might end up containing drama. Television writers today walk in and place a Box of bul lets on the producer s desk. That s pages 44 to 73 of the the writer says. Re member Tell Jeff to keep both hands on the any return to live drama would put Telvi Slon Back into new York As a business. Still this is the Only place where writers think and the actors arc trained to do it Are no retakes on Broadway. If television had to put on an hour of live drama where would they go for Talent to the Ann Margret school of vacancy upstairs or to ayoung woman on the Broadway stage who is trained to hold an audience with a device known As drama local stations Una fuated with networks could try local news or perhaps put on the Type of drama that would be to television what off Braodway is to the theater Busi Ness. Or perhaps the local stations Wouldhave to resort to a strange new thing put Ting real people on television. This would finally give the Public Access to television. For everybody for the networks and stations the change would be profound. No longer would a station owner merely put in the plug each morning let a network drone across the screen for most of the Day fill in the gaps with cartoons and a cheap local news show and then go Home a night with millions. And All the while the Public has been made More hour of live programming a night would Force television into performing enact now considered treasonous creating. This has not happened since 1960, when new technologies brought in film and tape and playhouse 90 was discarded for one sentence placed into a new Law just one simple sentence All of television would be changed at once and the Public would at least one hour a night television would have to depart from technology an become a product of the human mind. The fantasy would be less fantastic. Somebody might make sense. For a Complete hour nobody would get Hurt. The whole world might look better. And All hands would be used to help make a Point they would not be wrapped around a gun. 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Value 2t do push ups 28 deface29 divinely influenced39 lubricate 31 Seine usurers 17 family member 3 fathers41 preposition 42 antitoxins43 Send Forth 44 tease 41 like some hamburgers 47 words founder standing48 coloured 51 High card today s crossword Sis dear Ann Landers dear Ann i am writing i Hope it might save another life. Recently when my husband Andi were having lunch in a neigh boyhood restaurant we noticed woman a few tables away who seemed to be choking on he food. Suddenly 1 noticed her face was turning purple. Everyone around her was unset but no one knew what to do to husband jumped up. Grabbed the woman under her ribcage made a not and punched in. He did this three times and chunk of food that had been blocking the woman s Windpipe popped out of her Mouth. Within a matter of minutes she was feeling perfectly Fine. My husband Learned this life saving Man Euver from watching prank Fields on Channel 4 think my husband Bernard de serves a big hand Don t you mrs. B. Pitsky Levittown. New Vor dear mrs. A Bernard certainly does deserve a big hand an while we re Al ii ten give a big hand to Art Snider science writer for the Chicago Dally news. He was the first person to publicize the Heimlich uses a ing technique in 1975 and has undoubtedly saved several Hundred people from choking to death. Dear Ann my friends an neighbors borrow everything and anything 1 own. It s like i m Afree rent All shop. Every time someone stops by to see me wait to see what they Are going to ask for s gotten so bad i have to write Down who borrowed what and when because i can t re member any More where my stuff is. I have a great Many Friend Sand i want to keep them but i need help with this problem soup dear Ducky apparently you want to continue to be a rent so let s proceed fro there. Your Best Protection against losing articles permanently is to keep track of everything Bor rowed. Contact the Borrower after a reasonable period of Tim and ask when he or she plans to return , of course is a time con suming and self denigrating procedure. Moreover it does t speak very Well for your obviously you Are too Inse cure m say dear Ann a Friend ? who thinks she is the world s Best Cook served a very Nice souffle Ata luncheon recently. I asked for the recipe and she gave it to me grudgingly. I followed the instruction carefully i m no beginner and it turned out to be the worst Messi Ever saw. I phoned her the next morning and asked if perhaps she had left something out of the recipe. She screamed that s a insult there must be something wrong with your stove an slammed Down the receiver. Now i suspect she did leave something out. Was it wrong to Caliper Outten Eggland tots of cheese dear out souffles Are delicate and Capric Iob things. It May we have been your stove. 1 Don feel Yon insulted her however. She must have an awfully Short fuse poor thing
