Television
July, 1983
Three years ago, Al Schneider, a thoughtful fellow who serves as ABC's censor, gave a speech in which he called on his cable brethren to clean up their act. Cable, he said, was practicing a "nonpolicy of anything goes." The networks, by contrast, continued to "operate under the public-interest obligation, with self-imposed standards for programing." It was time, he said, for cable to "accept the responsibilities imposed by a mass medium."What Schneider meant was som...
