from SALANT, CBS, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM: THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD S. SALANT, Edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg. Westview Press. 362 pp.. $27.

Salant, who died in 1993, was president of CBS News for sixteen years in the 1960s and 1970s.

CBS Memorandum

To: Senior Vice President, Hard News

From: Richard Salant

Re: Truth

Date: June 16, 1978

This is a small niggling thing -- but last evening's special reminds me that we must be very careful to avoid having our anchorperson (as we had Walter [Cronkite] say on two separate occasions last evening) that we would be back "in a minute" as a lead-in to two minutes of commercials.

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