Show Te leviso 0 0 n opens new w era in polo ESS 13 acs millions will see and hear national conventions in 48 by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator washington reporting official washington entered a new era with the opening of congressional committee hearings on the aid to europe program the caucus room of the senate was crowded a dozen members ol 01 the senate foreign relations committee were seated at one side of a long table facing the spectators chairman was in the middle at a small table opposite him sat the witnesses secretary of state mar shall and undersecretary of state lovett the news folk some of them packed several green baize batze covered tables placed at right angles to the senators the room was a glare of light powerful bulbs had been substituted for the ordinary ones ln in the crys ys wi tal chandeliers in addition there were great klieg lights glaring down and be fore the hearings were over more than one pair of sun glasses ap feared secretary mar shall was tossing 0 off the tile billions as 1 he s stated t a t e d the amounts needed baukhage hage for long range and short range recovery interim emergency relief and med um range rehabilitation two billion six hundred and fifty seven millions five hundred and ninety seven millions five him hun dred millions one hundred and fifty millions pencils scratched senatorial pen ails as well aas as reportorial thit then that would be one mil lion mused aloud confused by the avalanche of digits everybody laughed the mere thought of ONE million among all those ciphers seemed absurd now senator Is very meticulous about making state ments merits concerning foreign policy he never will agree to an ad in on the air won t allow h in self to be quoted except from a pre pared statement the day after the one mill on remark one of my colleagues was kidding him how did you like it senator he hip asked when you mixed up mil lions and billions and it not only went out over the air but also your adding and multiplying went out to some television spectators my friend expected the sena tor to hit the ceiling but quite the contrary lie ile was so pleased when he realized rehli zed the number of people television had brought into the caucus room to see and hear bear senators and witnesses discuss what consid ers era such a vital matter that he forgot his old prejudices television helped draw both the republican and democratic na dional political conventions to the cita of philadelphia la television may have a very definite effect on the type of man and woman who will enter public life in the future and it certainly will have its effect on re porting methods used in covering public events roger clipp general manager of station and TV was se lecter to sell to political committee men the television advantages of philadelphia which is on the co axial cab lethe highway that car nes ries the images it stretches from washington up into new england and west to schenectady philadelphia s advantage said clipp is its central location which allows it to draw upon the pool of skilled television personnel located in the east and makes it easily ac tessible ces sible for hard to get equipment he ile estimated that financing the job will require for both con mentions vent ions in addition to the regular sta 11 tion coverage television receive ers and large screens will be placed in the basement of con bention hall and in adjoining commercial museum in this way all the party members who cannot find room in con bention hall plus about 25 spectators a day can be accod close to the actual scene of activity according to capp coaxial cable and established relay links will tie together at least 14 stations in the east in addition there will be a special experimental east to west network of stations to carry into the Midd lewest As he talked to politicos capp tossed off a few impressive figures himself more than 68 million people populate the area to be covered by bj televising the conventions that many people add up to some electoral votes he added this is in contrast to the situation in 1940 when the GOP convention in philadelphia was covered by two video cameras whose pictures reached an audience of less than 10 viewers of course not everybody in every state where the coaxial cable stretches its length will be handy to a television set in june and july ol 01 48 but we count four or five to a set ordinarily and when a biff big show Is on the spectators jump to SO 30 per set more and more taverns hotels and public places are installing t tele vision sets in fact out in chicago some people became concerned when they found that children who otherwise t enter a tavern went in to see the televised baseball and football games so they started a campaign to purchase television sets which could be installed in schools and sunday school rooms they charged a nickel or dime en trance fee until the set was paid for changing techniques mark development they say the washington corre spon dents as a result of all this televising are getting klie klieg 9 eyes someone suggested that perhaps re porters will be televised right out of existence they won t the tele phone didn dian t drive out the telegraph although the teletype has pretty much replaced the telegraph opera tor for manual sender somebody still has to write the messages you always will have to have a reporter to strain the news through you can t deliver it completely in the raw it takes a human brain not a machine to interpret it already changes in the technique are developing one for instance heard over the networks is unique in form and television will improve it perhaps you have listened to the ex cellena summary of the united na t ons in which you hear portions of the speeches of the delegates which were recorded when they were made and between them an an bouncer reading a prepared script and a commentator summarizing explaining interpreting N now ow you will see as well as hear what goes on here there and everywhere just as you d d at the televised hearings referred to earlier in order to do this job ob of sum inar danzing manzing izing and interpreting a man must be as thoroughly ta fa millar with the subject matter as any reporter who writes an important news story he ile must have sufficient background and experience e enough n 0 u g h general knowledge and specific information to select the proper record ed portions to give them the weight they deserve and pick the salient points to be sum marizek he win will be a reporter or lonamen writing his story with his lips picking out the quotes by pouring the stored up sound waves from the wax record or the wire recorder out through the spout of the micro phone onto the air 6 the profession is the same only the technique changes president truman imbibed some 1260 1 calories on the first meatless tuesday but he 11 R probably need more on thursdays that s the day he meets with press and radio cor respondents german communists joined nazis even before the soviet alliance with germany in the war they may do the same now and well we 11 have the old beef sandwich they used to talk about in germany brown outside and red inside people with highbloom high blood pressure usually suffer from inhibited ag gres sive impulses says journal of living which makes it easy to bet on what stalin wont won t die of |