klifhanger said:
Incorrect senor "always right and the reality is wrong'.
Columbia did do some studies(THE UNIVERSITY NOT THE COUNTRY)
The country is not even SPELLED the same.
You have heard of the 'COLUMBIA du PONT Journalism " award haven't ya?
That has nothing to do with the Paley papers. The papers are simply an archive.
Guess how it got its Prestige?? The "honorable and truthful Mr. Eduardo" is once again led astray by his own compulsion to argue against facts he doesn't agree with or he wasn't the first to say it.Man I better tell some friends to get rid of their shares of Univision before it becomes "LUNAvision".
We are already announced as going private. You could not hold shares if you wanted to.
The leadership of Mr. Eduardo is going down faster than a toy balloon with a 5oo pound weight attached.
You just changed the subject from the papers of Paley to the Columbia jorunalism awards. One has nothing to do with the other.
Have you read "IN ALL HIS GLORY The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle" by Sally Bedell Smith? It is pretty much the difinitve bio of Paley.
Among the interesting items....
"In his largely fictional 1979 memoir, "As It Happened," Mr. Paley would claim that it had all been his idea, right down to the detail that it was his father and uncle who had been on vacation in Europe. Ms. Smith refers to Mr. Paley's official version of his life's events throughout her book. After a while you can tell that she is about to refer to it whenever you come across "despite" or "contrary to." For Mr. Paley it was never enough to succeed; someone else must not have been there. A shame, unnecessary, for as Ms. Smith quotes a relative of one of his credit-grabbing victims, "If Bill Paley told the truth he would be a bigger man."
See? There is considerable evidence Mr. Paley exaggerated or changed details of his life. In fact, his own memoires are full of things that just were not so but that Mr Paley chose to view "differently."
The author of the biography said, in an interview, that William S. Paley was one of television's greatest figures, but his biographer says his involvement in the medium came very much against his better judgment.
"It was surprising to me, the degree of mistrust he had for television," Sally Bedell Smith said in a telephone interview from her New York City home. "His inclination was to hold it back as long as possible. He saw it as an enormous financial drain on CBS Radio, and he was essentially a radio man."
That revelation was one of many for Ms. Smith during the five years she spent researching and writing "In All His Glory," her account of the nine decades of Mr. Paley's life and his leadership of CBS.
"He's much more of a self-creation than I had figured," said Ms. Smith. "He seemed to glide effortlessly in his role at CBS and in his role as a bon vivant, but I saw a great deal of anxiety as well as calculation and shrewdness in the way he constructed his image. He was surprisingly insecure."
To get to the core of what she calls "a figure of mystery, for all his public profile," Ms. Smith, a former reporter for The New York Times and other publications, interviewed nearly 300 people, most of them repeatedly. One of Mr. Paley's oldest acquaintances, Irene Selznick, made Ms. Smith wait two years, telling the biographer, "You come to me with the contradictions."
Contradictions is the keyword. It surprises me not a bit that Mr Paleys writings disagree with his own company's public financial statements. The man adjusted the truth to fit his needs.
