The Reporters; A Reporter's Special: TV Violence
- Series
- The Reporters
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-15-w950g3hf92
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This public broadcasting program begins by telling the audience of a murder that occurred in the Boston area, in which a woman was brutally murdered by fire. The police commissioner had said the murder was linked to a recent television broadcast of the move Fuzz, starring Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch, in which someone is set afire. The program thus begins a conversation about the relationship between television violence and real violence, and features a roundtable discussion about television violence from the perspective of local television station executives. On the panel are James Thistle, Executive Producer for Programming at WBZ TV; James Coppersmith Vice President of of RKO Television and General Manager of WNAC TV; and Richard Burdock, Vice President and General Manager for Creative Services at WCVB TV. The other roundtable participants are Bill Greeley, television reporter for Variety magazine, and Dr. Ithiel de Sola Poole, MIT psychologist and advisor to the Surgeon General's television violence committee. The host of the show, Ed Baumeister, questions the panel about the responsibility the networks have in social violence, and what networks are doing to curb violence portrayed on television. The panel discusses violence as a necessary part of conflict in drama, television networks' role in monitoring violence on the news and in entertainment television, and the fact that local stations rely on the networks to bring audiences with the programs they produces. The panelists all agree that the audience drives the production of violent programming. In addition, panel discusses whether television is a mirror of reality. The station executives agree that television is a reflection of what goes on in society. Dr. Poole, however, argues that local stations cannot dismiss the issue by suggesting television reflects reality, since there are some children that will mimic what they see on television. The panel briefly discusses the differences with film and the successful family programming that is already on air.
- Episode Description
- Panel discussion of violence on television moderated by Ed Baumeister and Paul deGive. Guests: Bill Greeley, Variety reporter; James Thistle, Executive Producer for Programming, WBZ; Ithiel de Sola Pool, MIT, member of Surgeon General's advisory council on television violence; James Coppersmith, General Manager, WNAC; and Richard Burdick, General Manager, WCVB. WGBH News program 1970-1973. Some audio disturbances occur in this recording.
- Broadcast Date
- 1973-10-10
- Asset type
- Program
- Subjects
- Television violence and children; Violence in mass media--United States; Television and children--United States; Boston, Massachusetts; Violence on television--United States
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:All,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:00:00
- Credits
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: Baumeister, Ed
: Fletcher, Leah
: Degive, Paul
: Greeley, Bill
: Wiley, Lou
: Burdick, Richard
: Thistle, James
: De Sola Pool, Ithiel
: Coppersmith, James
Director: Stuart, Charles C.
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Identifier: cpb-aacip-4a1817c2a74 (unknown)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “The Reporters; A Reporter's Special: TV Violence,” 1973-10-10, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 17, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-w950g3hf92.
- MLA: “The Reporters; A Reporter's Special: TV Violence.” 1973-10-10. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 17, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-w950g3hf92>.
- APA: The Reporters; A Reporter's Special: TV Violence. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-w950g3hf92