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CBS as well.

Stanton:

Well, he was interested in my personal business problems. We'd talk a lot about the politics of the corporation and the differences between the programming people and the research people and so forth. Not all of our meetings were devoted to methodology. A lot of it was just, you know, the kind of gossip that a couple of guys indulge in.

He wanted me to do something that I should have done and didn't do. He felt that I should have organized a battery, of social critics, to write about radio, and make suggestions about programs.

Q:

Through the organization at Princeton, or through his organization?

Stanton:

No, no, no. CBS.

Q:

Through CBS.

Stanton:

He wanted me to do it as part of my business research.

Q:

A battery of critics of what kind?

Stanton:

Well, literary critics essentially. Critics of today, there would have been -- Well, there aren't many around that I have much confidence in, but there are the critics that -- that body of criticism that does exist in the movies and in television -- that kind of program critic.





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